U.S. K-12 spending drops for the first time in 35 years

(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)

Mmmkay, well, this sort of thing is going to happen when your labor participation rate hits 1978 levels.  With tens of millions of Baby Boomers reaching retirement age, it looks like it will be much easier to increase K-12 flexibility than funding going forward. Ah for the halcyon days of 2008 when the AFT dreamed of putting dentists and personal trainers in the public school system for transparently self-interested reasons the vague promise of creating a 21st Century utopia.

 

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2014 at 12:17 pm and is filed under school funding. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to U.S. K-12 spending drops for the first time in 35 years

  1. Greg Forster says:
    May 30, 2014 at 6:14 am

    Herb Stein for The Al!

    Reply

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