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Friday, February 25, 2005


Education: School Funding Formulas in Kansas Critiqued
Kenneth Daniels analyzes three legislative proposals in Kansas, and finds them all wanting.

Among the problems cited by the publisher of KSSmallbiz: none make downward adjustment in funding for any reason, no attempt to increase the portion of funding that makes it to the classroom, and continued funding for 600 residents of neighboring states.

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"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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