On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Harris wrote:
if there are 400 students and the per pupil funding is $7k, that right there is $2.8 million.
Except that in Saint Paul, it's about $10,000 per student. So there's little excuse, IMHO, for anything even remotely like this. If Nick Coleman exagerated, there's still a kernal of truth there. And there's no excuse for it all the same.
Period, end of story. Someone needs to be fired.
I know that's a hard-ass position, but frankly if you want to make sure that all the kids in Saint Paul get a good shot -- including the kids the neighborhood that used to be Rondo before they were chased out -- there's two parts to it:
1) Making sure it's funded properly, and 2) Making sure the money you send is spend properly.
I'm as lefty as they get on #1, usually, but I can be all Newt Gingerich when it looks like #2 isn't being held up. The money went somewhere -- and if it didn't go to kids who damned well need it, then someone stole it. I don't care if it's for some kind of enrichment or some kind of reporting back to 360 Colborne or any of that -- if you take money that someone desperately needs to get a fair shot in life, you're stealing.
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