Education Minnesota Is Right
Education Minnesota will begin a 10-week television ad campaign on Super Bowl Sunday. According to their press release, "...the ads urge the governor and lawmakers to make education the top priority..." I think they are absolutely right, with one stipulation. I believe Education Minnesota should go and do likewise, and make education THEIR top priority, rather than simply throwing more money at the current failing (in too many ways and places) public school system. They also should not be spending teachers' taxpayer-paid union dues on expensive TV ads, and then demanding higher teacher pay.
"Minnesotans get that you can't cut your way to excellence," says the press release. Hopefully, Minnesotans will also get that you can't buy excellence just by throwing more money at the status quo. When Education Minnesota starts agreeing to a certain level of improvement in results for a given increase in funding, when THEY agree that education is their top priority, rather than simply ever-increasing funding for themselves, then they will be right all around.
Crossly posted at Freedom Dogs
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