'Costing Out' Study: Prescription for a Taxpayer Mugging

On February 20th the Governor announced plans to fund schools using as the principal criterion the biggest gap between how much schools are spending per student and how much they should spend as determined by the $650,000 ‘Costing Out’ study (paid for by taxpayers) released in November 2007. The 2008 budget includes $291 million in increased funding to be distributed across the state’s school districts under the “funding gap” reduction plan. Continue