Hot Link: Where Do All Those Tax Dollars for Education Go?

April 13, 2010

Raymond J. Keating had an opinion piece in the Sunday New York Post titled “NY school spending doesn’t add up.” The piece starts out:

During the state budget crisis, lawmakers moan that there’s simply nothing that can be cut. Yet during the fat times, the budget increased at rates far greater than inflation. Begging the question — why does it cost so much more to run New York than it did 10 years ago?

Let’s take just one category, spending on public schools, where the numbers are staggering — and, from a taxpayer’s perspective, deeply distressing…

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