(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers Oct. 26, 2015)
Remember your mother telling you that there are some things you just don’t ask about?
You never ask about now much money people make, or why that diet apparently just isn’t working…or, how much money the local board of education pays the football coach.
Those are just off-limits sorts of things that…wait…that last question got asked last week at a meeting of the K-12 Student Success Committee.
The committee which is studying school finance—but probably more particularly whether school districts are spending state aid money the way that conservative legislators want it spent—raised that question.