December 21, 2005

Schools shouldn\'t get blank check for spending increases

Columnist Thomas Bray says a proposed law that would guarantee funding increases for public schools, community colleges and state universities equal to the rate of inflation, is a bad idea. The K-16 Coalition for Michigan 's Future says it will go back to the Legislature before seeking certification of its petition drive which the group says has accumulated a sufficient number of signatures to place the law on the 2006 ballot. Bray wrote, "What\'s really needed is not another bailout but fundamental reform of the education system itself. It\'s outrageous that educators would think they should get automatic spending increases as far as the eye can see, while everybody else must get in line

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