State supreme courts have been hearing law suits brought by poor students against the states for not adequately funding the public school system.
It seems to me that if there were a case for enlightened self-interest, public education would be it. The people fighting the suits are the anti-tax guys. Not that I'm in favor of more taxes per se, but it does seem short-sighted - to put it kindly - to cut here. Bush is advocating national testing standards that would raise the educational level, but if states start nickle-and-diming their public school system, we're going to have another “unfunded mandate” pissing contest.
The operative term appears to be “adequacy.” It escapes me why states are satisfies to give any of their kids merely an adequate education and seems even more implausible that they defend a racially-based gap. Sent wirelessly from my Blackberry.
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