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Making Tweed Smile
Andrew Wolf points to the very non-transparent New york City Board of Education budget and how one area, "professional development", has increased. “Experts” from Columbia Teachers College are paid as much as $1,000 a day to “work” with teachers. A private company called A.U.S.S.I.E. Inc. (yes, they’re from Down Under) provides similar services, charging the bargain basement rate of $900 a day. by Andrew Wolf ![]()
There seems to be little correlation between educational expenditures and results. At least that's what I can see in a recent study completed by the New York City Independent Budget Office. According to the IBO, "spending on 'direct services to schools,' by far the largest functional category, grew to $10.7 billion from $7.2 billion, a nearly 49% increase."
This is a huge increase. To put it in perspective, New York's increase alone is three times the entire school budget of San Diego, Calif. So why haven't scores increased as well? Because simply throwing money at schools will not automatically increase the performance of our children. How you spend it is far more important than how much. |