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Kansas Liberty: 29 December 2009
2010 Commission member Stephen Iliff identifies parallels between report's recommendations and the "paid education lobby"
Minority report reveals majority report flaws
The majority of the 2010 Commission members have taken the stance that legislators must raise taxes to maintain a steady, massive infusion of taxpayer dollars into the state’s schools.
However, one 2010 Commission member, Stephen Iliff, took a fundamentally different approach to the K-12 funding dilemma in his minority report, released last week.
“The major focus of the recommendations of the 2010 Commission to the 2010 Legislature is to get more money for education by raising taxes,” Iliff said in his minority report. “We have lost focus on the basic principles of government and economics on which our country and State were founded as well as the purpose for the 2010 Commission in the first place."
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By the way, there is little (some, of course) correlation between revenue spent and academic outcome, so the cry for more and more money is ridiculous.
The education officials are fudging the numbers as to how wonderfully our students are doing academically. There's been a lot of dumbing down in the last several decades.
Too many 'koolaid drinkers' among the parents and taxpayers.