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TABOR-busting resolution passes House Ed
Written by Todd Engdahl on Apr 19th, 2010. | Copyright © EdNewsColorado.org
Another election season, another request for tax money from the “educational interests”, only this time, they had the audacity to parade “a few little kids” before the panel and a had a 6th grader testify. Wow! How emotional!
Just last year, the tax payers approved Amendment 50 to fund community colleges, but it is never enough.
Andrea Merida, Member of the Denver Public School Board, recently blogged on the Education News Colorado website that “TABOR is bankrupting the State of Colorado and must be repealed”. That comment provides an interesting insight into her thinking: A law that limits spending will somehow “bankrupt” the state, but Amendment 23, a law that requires the state to spend money that it doesn’t have, will not.
The Teacher’s Union currently has over 80 teachers on ‘direct placement’ that have no assignments but that will continue to receive full pay and benefits – at an annual cost to the tax payers of over $5 million. If the Teachers Union and the various school districts made wise spending decisions with the funds they do receive, the tax payers might be more inclined to provide additional funding.
Education is an incredibly important function. Management of the process needs to be upgraded before those “educational interests” will get my support.
When asked; “How much does it cost to educate a child every year?” our current school administrator and board members will retort: “How much do you have?” as they have at every election.
…just thoughts from the West Side.