Imposing three-to-five-year funding cycles makes school funding more predictable and enables better district forecasting. Currently, districts rely on the whims of politics one year to the next. It makes it harder for districts to budget, which makes it harder to solve the teacher shortage issue or hire more counselors.
Paul Ruth
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Opinion | Some fixes for teacher shortage require more than money
We spend a lot of time debating how much money should go into the education of our children, and very little thinking about how best to spend those funds.
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Opinion | Michigan’s teacher shortage caused by decades of bad public policy
A Macomb County teacher has seen from the inside how state policies and underfunding of schools has shriveled the state’s teacher pool. Now, we’re paying the price.
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Opinion | Why instructing online is an inadequate way of teaching
The rigor is still there, the assignments are still there, the reaching out and motivation are still there, but the human component is lacking in some of the crucial moments as a teacher.
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School choice and quality don’t always go together
It’s essential for our communities to have quality education available for their children. But choice isn’t the way to get there
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Education policy makes schools hard to fund
One way to ensure more state funding goes into the classroom is to enroll more charter schools in the pension system