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May 30, 2005
School District Administrators Ought to Study Economics
On May 17th 45 school budgets in Long Island and 6 in Westchester (both in suburban New York) were rejected by voters. Rejections of this scale are a new occurrence, and the reaction of education officials is at once amusing and frustrating for the level of ignorance it indicates. Somehow convinced that it is possible to justify a 60 percent per pupil increase in spending from the 2001-2002 school year to the 2005-2006 school year (an extreme case, but an illustrative one), these administrators seem to be woefully ignorant of the basic tenets of economics.
Economics studies the allocation of scarce resources. Money, even in many of the affluent communities of suburban New York, is just such a scarce resource. As birth rates decline and the demographic make-up of our nation changes, there is likely going to be an increased level of confrontation regarding the financial committment communities are willing to make for the benefit of their school systems. These rejections are not only a protest against rising property taxes, they are also a very public indication that demographic trends will alter policy at the community level.
Posted by Audi Partem Alteram at May 30, 2005 09:04 PM
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