tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4289345346387194350.post6873108697167136454..comments2023-06-24T10:52:34.846-04:00Comments on EducateHilliard.com: Unconstitutional: What does it mean?Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05960574627644930183noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4289345346387194350.post-22340402206538698312007-12-19T13:25:00.000-05:002007-12-19T13:25:00.000-05:00Good points... but let's take a macro view instead...Good points... but let's take a macro view instead of a state-level view. <BR/><BR/>Don't you agree that the sum total spent on education nationwide in 2000 compared to 1950 has vastly increased even after adjusting for inflation? Why have education costs risen over the rate of inflation for many decades - with no let-up in sight?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4289345346387194350.post-36146611912007293802007-12-19T11:14:00.000-05:002007-12-19T11:14:00.000-05:00There are many things contributing to this:1. I do...There are many things contributing to this:<BR/><BR/>1. I don't mean to harp on this, but 90% of the cost of running a school district is the salaries and benefits of the teachers, staff and administrators. I think that in many districts, and particularly since the advent of teachers' unions, the rate of pay increases for teachers has been higher than other jobs in the community. That doesn't mean teachers are overpaid now - I think it is more likely they were underpaid in the past. But whatever one's feeling on this, the fact is that this is the cost component of education which has changed the most.<BR/><BR/>2. On the revenue side, Ohio has changed from a heavily industrialized state to one with a small and shrinking industrial base. Those factories paid lots of school taxes, and supported mature communities with a mix of families with kids in school and empty nesters. These kinds of communities are very different than the no-industry communities like Hilliard, which grew primarily because families with kids wanted their kids to attend those schools.<BR/><BR/>3. There are many areas of the state which rode the upside of the 20th century industrial boom, growing from nothing to major magnets for job seekers from all over. I'm a proud Appalachian whose family made such a move, but in the opposite direction of most - after 150 years in Ohio, my granddad and dad moved our family to WV to work in the chemical plants around Charleston. The much greater migration was from WV and KY into OH and MI to work in the auto factories and steel mills.<BR/><BR/>While those industries are much smaller than they used to be, and employing a fraction of the labor force they once did, the people have remained. <BR/><BR/>Part of the reason they do is that we've developed a policy of subsidizing their choice to live in an area with high unemployment. Part of that subsidy is the state support of their schools: We pay not only to run our own school system, we pay a share of the cost of running theirs as well.<BR/><BR/>The cold hard truth is that those areas are not likely to ever recover, and we need to encourage those folks to once again move to a better place, like their parents and grandparents did 60 years ago. The only way I know how to do that is make it more uncomfortable to stay than it is to leave.<BR/><BR/>... there are lots of other factors, such as the sudden upswing and concentration of immigration, the burden created by NCLB and other oversight systems, and attention that needs to be paid to security. But it's the ones I list above which I think are most significant.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05960574627644930183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4289345346387194350.post-10608075115027784612007-12-19T10:38:00.000-05:002007-12-19T10:38:00.000-05:00It boggles the mind that the backdrop for the mone...It boggles the mind that the backdrop for the money crunch is that Ohio went from <A HREF="http://blog.cleveland.com/wideopen/2007/10/ohios_tax_burden_ranking.html" REL="nofollow"><B>one of the lowest to one of the highest</B></A> taxed states over the past few decades. <BR/><BR/>There's never enough money unless you're printing it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4289345346387194350.post-40218753513475766502007-12-18T20:44:00.000-05:002007-12-18T20:44:00.000-05:00All Schuring's plan does if freeze this year's edu...All Schuring's plan does if freeze this year's education budget and create a stabilization fund for up and down years. There is no new money and does not reduce the need for property tax levies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com