More Money for Public Schools Is Not the Answer

America’s public school students continue to score well below students from other developed countries on standardized tests of math, science, reading, and problem solving.  Embarrassed teachers’ unions are blaming the poor performance of American students on budget cuts.  This is nothing more than finger pointing to distract taxpayers from the real reasons for poor performance, but it is at least a well-timed if disingenuous distraction. Because of the disastrous economic policies of the Obama administration, most states have had to suffer through persistent recessionary conditions for three years and counting.

As a result, local school systems in most states have experienced on-going budget cuts or, at least, what teachers’ unions call budget cuts.  In many cases the so-called cuts have really been reductions in projected increases as opposed to actual cuts.  In fact, only the skewed logic of the left could define a reduction in a proposed budget increase as a budget cut.  A cut is when you end up with less funding than you had, not less than you wanted.

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