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Here's an axiom of the new budget math for state officials: '80s into '90s won't go. For much of the past decade state budgets were pushed into the black by a buoyant economy that kept tax revenues pouring in just fast enough. In a pinch, states could unveil a new lottery, nudge up the sales tax or practice the kind of creative accounting that shifts one year's outlays into the next. But with the economy slumping and voters raising a fuss at the very whisper of new taxes, the assumptions of the '80s are not working anymore...
...senior policy specialist with the group. "We need to strike a balance to determine which revenues will fund which services at which level of government." In the short term, state lawmakers -- and state citizens -- will have plenty of opportunity to learn another dismal equation of the new budget math: lower revenues plus higher spending obligations equals big headaches...
Respected for his moderate, practical approach, Alexander will come to Washington with an impressive record of educational reforms. His Better Schools Program in Tennessee -- which features a merit-pay system for teachers, tougher standards for students and more computer, science and math instruction -- has become a national model. The ex-Governor favors deregulation of school bureaucracies to encourage innovation and strongly backs adult education to make U.S. workers competitive again...
...budget, Bush requested a $100 million increase in the education programs of the National Science Foundation and $230 million to help states improve math and science teaching. But such paltry amounts will not catapult U.S. students from last to first place worldwide in math and science by the year 2000, another goal. Unless Bush does much more -- starting with choosing an inspiring Education Secretary -- he deserves no better than an Incomplete on his report card...
...place the responsibility for that on the health-science community is, I would say, unfair. The responsibility for that judgment rests with the entire country's priorities. Why do we undervalue the young? Why are our disadvantaged minorities so sick? Why is education in such horrendous shape in math and science? We live in a remarkably complicated society in which we have been incapable of having all our citizens share in the fruits of our national labors. But it would be remarkably shortsighted and illogical to say that the responsibility for that lies with those who generate new information...