Self Righteousness over performance

The truly self righteousness and shocking rhetoric on display in the Wisconsin State House is made more offensive when one remembers that these people have received substantial increases in funding and achieved nothing with them.  In the private sector they would be fired.  Glenn Reynolds has more:

But it gets worse: "The test also showed that the reading abilities of Wisconsin public-school eighth graders had not improved at all between 1998 and 2009, despite a significant inflation-adjusted increase in the amount of money Wisconsin public schools spent per pupil each year. . . . from 1998 to 2008, Wisconsin public schools increased their per pupil spending by $4,245 in real terms yet did not add a single point to the reading scores of their eighth graders and still could lift only one-third of their eighth graders to at least a 'proficient' level in reading."

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/03/sunday-reflection-now-comes-lower-education-bubble#ixzz1FvEmonHz