The other day I mentioned Gov. Gary Locke's proposal to raise $1 billion in new funding for education by raising the state sales tax by 1¢ (to nearly 10% in some communities).
I've obtained a draft of the bill that is circulating in Olympia. The bill promises not only to tax and spend with reckless abandon but also to
Ensure greater accountability, cooperation, and efficiency by requiring trust fund recipients to develop and meet key performance benchmarks.But a closer look at the so-called "accountability" provisions reveals just more of the same hocus-pocus phoney-baloney public education "accountability" that we're all familiar with -- a grand facade of financial "transparency" and a lot of serious happy talk about self-defined "performance benchmarks", but no real consequences for failure to meet those benchmarks.
Yawn.
And the other unfortunate aspect of this bill is that it would increase funding for the Evergreen State "College".
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at February 11, 2004 12:29 PMLocke is trolling for a job as UW president with this massive spending proposal. This proposal is nothing more than another paragraph on his education resume intended to buy influence with the UW Regents.
Posted by: Gary B on February 11, 2004 07:46 PM