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Some Geezer War implications in this WaPo piece.

In the December 25th Wash. Post Outlook section Stan Hinden discussed the impending retirement of the baby boomers. It’s an enormous issue in terms of the shifting demographic burden. It also matters for schools. Yet rather than preparing, the spending trajectory of the past thirty years has created an assumption that we can just spend …

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The Bush Administration is betting that they are…but apparently betting wrong. And, Bush Administration has developed a point-system to rate education reporters. How handy! And how completely wasteful and inappropriate a use of taxpayer dollars… Update: Roll Call has more.

In case you missed them, here and here are accounts of Alan Greenspan’s comments the other day about entitlements. If you care about education finance this is not an arcane or irrelevant issue. In fact, it’s a central one. The looming resource squeeze as the baby-boomers head into their golden years threatens to swamp all …

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Edujobs below, scroll down the main page. Kirsten Schmitz with some background and context on pensions and the teacher walkouts. Chad Aldeman on pension reform in Kentucky. This is a smart take on the geezer war and what it means for debates over teacher pay. I’ve been doing this work for a couple of decades and …

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Interesting Ron Brownstein article from NJ about generational and racial demographics and fiscal burdens and the attendant politics. Big implications for education finance.  Some early and preliminary evidence that older citizens are less likely to support school finance issues on the ballot in mixed race districts, for instance.  Past “Geezer War” items here.

In all the back and forth about the President’s budget request I’m surprised that there has not been more said, written, blogged, about the assumptions behind it. They matter. The chart at right, taken from OMB’s historical tables released with this year’s budget shows education outlays by function in constant dollars for FY01-FY13 (click on …

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Geezer War action on NPR.

California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell’s annual state-of-the-state on education speech is worth reading. Among other interesting notes, pronounced achievement gap and Geezer War mentions.

It’s not the Geezer War per se but trends like this should alarm public school supporters nonetheless.