Live Chat: Delivering more bang for the buck in education

Monday May 7, 2012 9:59 AM By Sam Guzik

Photo credit: iStock Photo | Cutting state mandates in the areas of collective bargaining and special education would help schools deliver more bang for the buck, E.J. McMahon argues.

How can educators deliver more bang for the buck?

Join Newsday Opinion columnist E.J. McMahon for a Q & A on his latest column, ‘The biggest expenses in education,’ Monday May 7 at 1:00 p.m. on Newsday's Facebook page.

McMahon, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and its Albany-based Empire Center for New York State Policy, argues that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's commission studying the high cost of New York State's public schools should steer clear of district reorganization, rather than touch off a big political fight over relatively small potential savings.

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Instead, he says, costs of spending on programs mandated by, but not funded by Albany, drive up local school taxes.

READ: McMahon's column on the biggest expenses in education

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