The San Diego Union-Tribune published this excellent op-ed today, just two days after OAF Blog wrote on the same subject with a very similar headline. Hmm, I wonder if the editors of the Union-Tribune read OAF Blog?
Reforms must precede windfall for education
UNION-TRIBUNE
December 3, 2006
...Elizabeth Hill, the state's respected, neutral legislative analyst, recently issued a five-year budget forecast. The news for schools was staggering: Taxpayers are about to hand an extra $6 billion to educators.
...Parents should get vouchers to spend at private or public schools, thus ensuring healthy competition that would slash wasteful administration. Good teachers should get bonus pay, mediocre teachers should be reassigned, and bad teachers should find new careers. Districts must stop covering up horrendous drop-out rates.
Voters have decided to invest in their children. Sacramento must not fail them.
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