Captain Obvious Strikes Again!

captobvious-738633We’re on a roll. Only six weeks after Vermont discovered that hiring more teachers while shedding students does, remarkably, lead to school budget deficits, comes the news that Maine has learned school district consolidation does not lead to budget savings.

Perhaps we could excuse Maine officials for not studying the research, but they didn’t have to. Their own newspapers reported this would happen back in October 2007.

Share

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 at 13:30 and is filed under Pictures. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Captain Obvious Strikes Again!”

  1. educ8m Says:
    January 22nd, 2009 at 17:41

    I think the only intelligent response to the article that you quote Mike is “DUH.” Good stuff. We love it.

  2. Fred D. Baldwin Says:
    January 31st, 2009 at 11:24

    So call me “Private Obvious.” I’ve made the same point at my blog at schoolboardtransparency.org. The specific post is http://schoolboardtransparency.org/2008/12/27/consolidation-without-transparency-unlikely-to-cut-costs/#more-88.



http://www.wikio.com BlogBurst.com Education Blog Directory