Takoma Voice article: Better Schools, in a Bad Budget: Seven Resolutions for the New Decade

[Anonymous]

Excellent.

http://www.takoma.com/archives/copy/2010/01/schoolscene0110.html

"Better Schools, in a Bad Budget: Seven Resolutions for the New Decade

The end of a decade provides a crucial opportunity to “stop and think,” in the immortal words of one school anti-bullying program. Every year at this time, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Superintendent Jerry Weast asks for half of the county budget for our schools. This year, huge shortfalls are predicted in the wake of the recession, and Weast has, as he does each year, threatened painful cuts designed to stimulate parent demands for full funding of his proposed schools budget.

But some of us have lost patience with what appears to be emotional manipulation in order to fund a budget heavy on central office expenses...."