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To: gamesmistress who wrote (11090)	10/6/2003 10:19:59 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) of 793843

Gina, it's easy enough to pop up random comparisons. It's best to separate out several questions. How are New Jersey k-12 schools funded relative to other states, to go back to the Hassett methdology? That takes some cost of living comparisons, as you saw in the California case. In that one, the raw numbers put them 1st, the cost of living numbers put them 16th. I just looked at the AFT website to see if I could find the comparable data for Jersey. Couldn't find it. Perhaps it's there. I did find something that ranked Jersey 9th in the same list of numbers that put California first. If cost of living measures were applied, my guess is Jersey drops below 16th. So, first of all number comparisons between states. But there is a different issue which doesn't relate to these comparative numbers and it is more about the overall funding for education and its critical importance. That funding needs to be raised to recruit the best canditates. I think we've had this discussion here before but I recall a wonderful Atlantic Monthly piece which addressed precisely this issue of the future recruitment of good quality teachers.

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