The back of EW has an article about educations pulling away form the funding cliff. Do we need to be on a cliff. Oregon has its own problems with funding. The legislature meets only one every two years, we send back anything we don't use to the tax payers, and we do not have a real fund for emergencies. If you couple that with some of the issues pointed out in the article about failure to budget properly, sate and federal mandates on schools, and oversight failures, it is clear we have set ourselves up for failure.
How do we get to a point where we can make sure we don't get ourselves into this kind of a situation? As EW points out, we will need to plan. Will Americans do that? I think no.
You use a terrific phrase: "... we send back anything we don't use to the tax payers." Is that an argument for more spending in schools? How should the determination about how much to spend in schools be made?
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