More Geezer War!
Some Geezer War implications in this WaPo piece.
The Geezer War…Begun It Has.
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 …
Are The Geezers Smarter Than The Kids?
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.
The Coming Geezer War…And, Update! Eduwonk Leaves Irony Behind
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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Coming Storms. Coming Attractions – Substack Live Tomorrow. Happy Pimento Cheese Day. Plus, Why Doesn’t Trump Talk About His Education Tax Credits?
Tomorrow is National Pimento Cheese Day. Happy Pimento Cheese Day if you celebrate. Also tomorrow, at 7pm on Substack, Virginia parents Todd Truitt, Jaime Osborne, and I will talk about the issues raised in this recent article, not just in VA but nationally. The basic idea that it’s hard to think critically if you don’t have content to think …
Denver 2008 V. Denver 2018, Plus Lots Of Finance: Pensions, State Spending, Omnibus Bill. And The Great 8 DIY’s, New Line, Sup’t Searches, Food Searches, More!
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 …
Gray Matter
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.
More Budget…And The P Word
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 …
Money Scare
Geezer War action on NPR.
State Of CA
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.