Posts Tagged ‘education’
NPRI on education spending…
Count this as my quote of the week.
“Hardly anyone today thinks the quality of education has increased considerably over the last several decades. Yet from 1961-2005, per-pupil education spending in the United States increased by 247 percent, adjusted for inflation. In fact, per-pupil spending hikes on public education from 1961-2005 were so massive they dwarf the rates of price increases in housing, automobiles and even gasoline, and have outpaced increases in personal income as well.”
- Patrick Gibbons, Nevada Policy Research Institute, 7/24/08
More money and a much bigger government bureaucracy has produced… well… nothing new.
Fabulous.
H/T: NPRI
FREE THE READINGTON 29!
Thomas Jefferson famously said that “The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.” Well, Tommy J would be awfully proud of some two dozen kids in New Jersey today.
It seems the students at Readington Middle School (RMS) in Hunterdon County aren’t happy with the short amount of time they get for lunch every day. So in the finest American tradition – think “Boston Tea Party” – some of them came up with a novel way to protest the perceived injustice.
“Some 29 seventh- and eighth-graders at the school banded together during last Thursday’s 30-minute lunch period and paid for their $2 lunches with pennies,” reports the New Jersey Star-Ledger this morning. “That amounted to 5,800 individual, or 32 pounds, of pennies.” Continue Reading
