July 12, 2008
Remember the old joke about the farmer who tried to train his horse to eat less each day? “Why,” he said, “just about the time I had him fully trained, he died.”
But the joke is not funny — indeed it is pathetic — when it applies to the starvation diet the state has fed our public schools for many years. Florida ranks 47th out of 50 states in per-pupil expenditures. We spend $1,400 less per pupil than the national average.
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