turn around specialist…
April 10th, 2007
Opinion, Politics, Vermont, economics, education, taxes
Vermont Tiger posted a salient commentary from one of its readers - Louis Constanzo of Winhall. He hits the nail squarely! Our tax woes are easy to understand. And a little more remedial reading at Vermont Tiger can do no harm. The facts and figures lend themselves to simple arithmetic. Our education funding is killing this state. First, as a service - it is of middling quality (per standardized testing - what ever that may really mean) at “top of the line cost”. Sort of like the problems Ford, Chrysler, and GM are having with their products. Sales are off against a better product (Toyota, Nissan, etc). So to stay in business they cut costs. And thus they cut jobs. Lots and lots of jobs.
With 94,000 students (K-12) at a teacher-student ratio of about 1:11 (a bit lower actually), the job is not getting done as well as other states… with teacher-student ratios of 1:18 or higher. Common sense would suggest the problem lies NOT with the teacher student ratio but with SOMETHING else. At 1:11, that’s about 8500 teachers; at 1:18 - 5200 teachers. Which means we have 3300 teachers too many. Way too many. Give them pinks slips. Or face bankruptcy. Period.
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