Montana's education funding dilemma

January 13, 2008

The issue of funding for public education in Montana moved up to the front burner last week when Gov. Brian Schweitzer made the rounds of newspaper editorial boards to warn school administrators that merely asking for more money isn’t going to cut it anymore.

He said that K-12 schools, which have received a 26 percent boost in state funding during Schweitzer’s tenure, need to explicitly show what they’ve done with the additional income and exactly why they now say they need still more.

Full Opinion: http://helenair.com/articles/2008/01/13/opinions/top/irview_080113.txt

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