March 17, 2005
Bush's law costs Wisconsin millions
By Jay Bullock
The good folks at the National Priorities Project have run the numbers for No Child Left Behind in Bush's proposed budget. They find not only that the budget underfunds NCLB (which is old news), but that the budget would result in cuts in constant-dollar allocations to nearly every state.
Wisconsin's decline, in real dollars, will be more than $2 million next year. Overall, our share of NCLB will be underfunded by $164 million. One teacher runs you about $75,000. That's more than 2000 teachers we could have in classes.
Chris Correa does more research so that I don't have to. He gives us the per-pupil cost, not of the real-dollar cuts, but of the total underfunding per state. Wisconsin's $164 million underfunding translates to what looks like a paltry $169.03 per pupil.
Let me put that in perspective: The district where I teach has about 105,000 students. In other words, NCLB underfunding costs my district alone $17 million. The last several years we've been closing schools and laying off hundreds of teachers because we've been running deficits to the tune of $15-$20 million. How many kids are missing out on their Music or Phys. Ed. classes because we're giving up Title I money to NCLB requirements?
(Jay Bullock maintains the folkbum's rambles and rants Web log.)
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