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Do Schools Need More Money?


Reed Martin is an attorney with over 35 years experience in special education law and is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts.

The following article appears on Reed Martin's website
 www.reedmartin.com and gives a very enlightening answer to this question.


“We Don’t Get Enough Federal Dollars To Do The Job”

REED MARTIN, J.D.

Has your school district told you that about the IDEA? Whatever you ask for – the answer is that we are not given enough funds.


Surprise! Your school district itself may be the reason why there is too little Federal funding available to meet your school district’s needs. Your school district may have sent back millions of dollars back to the Federal government because it just never got around to using all the dollars for this year (and the rest had to be sent back) or your school may have been found to have misused the funds and now has to return them to the Federal government.
Read complete Article (We highly recommend it!)
http://www.reedmartin.com/wedontgetenoughmoney.htm

More Resources on this issue

Do Schools Really Need More Money?
Article posted in 1993 by Mackinac Center for Public Policy
 http://www.mackinac.org/article.asp?ID=146

Schools Need Local Solutions, Not Federal Money Dumps
by Richard C. Seder
Published by Bridge News Service on February 7, 2000
http://www.rppi.org/opeds/020700.html

When Schools Already Get so Much Money, Do They Need More?
by Benjamin Zycher
Benjamin Zycher is an economist and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute.
http://www.cato.org/dailys/11-25-99.html
 

 

 


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