{"id":99291,"date":"2020-10-28T03:17:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/democrats-deadly-strings-on-new-covid-19-aid\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T03:17:16","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T00:17:16","slug":"democrats-deadly-strings-on-new-covid-19-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/democrats-deadly-strings-on-new-covid-19-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Democrats\u2019 deadly strings on new COVID-19 aid"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Democrats\u2019 deadly strings on new COVID-19 aid<\/strong>”
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\n Families and businesses are watching their bottom lines and stretching each dollar. But House Democrats are pushing a plan to prevent America\u2019s schools from doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

The proposed HEROES Act, laying out their demands for the next federal COVID-19 relief package, pledges $175 billion to K-12 public schools to help cover pandemic-related costs and backfill lost state revenues. But to qualify, states must keep spending as much on education as they averaged during the past three years from now until mid-2022. That condition was a priority for teachers unions, which claimed that otherwise states might shift funds to other priorities.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s a real chance that state tax receipts won\u2019t rebound to their pre-pandemic levels until 2023 or later, meaning states should be looking for long-term fixes instead of short-term bailouts. And no state needs to look more carefully at how it spends education money than New York.<\/p>\n

Requiring Albany to maintain its spending levels would exacerbate a fiscal crisis. The Empire State is deep in the red. Education spending \u2014 a quarter of the state budget \u2014 is bolded in the ledger.<\/p>\n

New York\u2019s per-pupil education spending increased more than 250 per\u00adcent between 1998 and 2018, an acceleration that dwarfed the national average. Now at more than $24,000 per student, the state is such an outlier that it would lead all states \u2014 and countries \u2014 even if Gov. Cuomo implemented a threatened 20 percent state-aid cut.<\/p>\n

New York also presents the strongest case that high K-12 spending doesn\u2019t automatically translate into results.<\/p>\n

As Cuomo observed in 2011, when per-pupil spending was \u201conly\u201d $18,850, \u201cit\u2019s not about how much we spend, but the results that matter. As data show our education spending hasn\u2019t resulted in performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Endemic waste and inefficiency continue to grip the state education system. Over the past two decades, achievement on the \u00adNational Assessment of Educational Progress, the so-called \u00adnation\u2019s report card, modestly \u00addeclined despite marked increases in spending.<\/p>\n

The very prospect of a federal bailout means states such as New York are less interested in reforms that would reduce costs and improve education outcomes<\/p>\n

New York schools have historically struggled with accountability \u2014 even in cases of misconduct. Tenured Gotham teachers who face discipline charges, for instance, are either paid not to work, and placed in \u201crubber rooms,\u201d or deployed for clerical work or substitute teaching.<\/p>\n

When school districts are forced to lay off teachers, state law requires them to let go their most recent hires. This last-in, first-out practice makes no allowance for a teacher\u2019s performance \u2014 and ultimately requires more layoffs, since junior teachers are general<\/a>ly paid less. In 2019, city schools in Rochester laid off 152 of their newest teachers, as \u201cLIFO\u201d requires. The district, three years prior, had identified 146 teachers as \u201cineffective\u201d using state accountability measures, but there was little to no overlap between the two groups.<\/p>\n

Moments of crisis can serve as catalysts for real reform \u2014 if policymakers allow it. During the Great Recession, Mayor Mike Bloomberg shepherded changes that improved the efficiency and quality of city public schools.<\/p>\n

Yet Bloomberg\u2019s reforms have since fallen out of favor. Most notably, Mayor de Blasio has retreated from reforms that rewarded or sanctioned schools for performance. He also opposes \u00adexpansion of charter schools, which must maintain performance and enrollment targets to remain open.<\/p>\n

Charter schools significantly outperform traditional public schools in New York City \u2014 and at lower cost. As of 2017, New York City charter schools cost taxpayers $10,500 less per pupil than district schools.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gotham public schools continue to deliver lousy outcomes at high costs. If Congress writes a blank check to the Empire State that stifles fundamental reform \u2014 both fiscal and substantive \u2014 students will continue to lose.<\/p>\n

Ian Kingsbury is an education-policy fellow at the Empire Center. <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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