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Category Archives: Fiscal & Economic
Can’t you NOT meet a nice young lawyer…
Among the tensions in higher education are expensive professional schools supplying graduates with higher debt loads than their industries can bear. Recent revelations include legal graduates describing their law schools as ponzi schemes and paper mills, as detailed in this piece. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiscal & Economic, Higher Education
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State beats Ivy
As a continuation of the discussion of the value of a college education comes the revelation that many companies are more actively recruiting and hiring students from state schools than from the Ivies. And, as the article notes, the underlying economics are thus: College tuition … Continue reading
Posted in Fiscal & Economic, Higher Education
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What’s missing from the DPS pension dispute?
What’s missing? Teachers. And that’s a little odd, isn’t it, since it is their pensions primarily at issue, and individually they have the most to gain or to lose. Now mix in that the same people crying foul over the … Continue reading
Posted in Fiscal & Economic, Politics, Teacher Unions
Tagged DPS (Denver Public Schools), Pensions
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Political fiddling while pensions burn
Gretchen Morgenson, the current dean of financial reporting, covers the DPS pension debate as part of a series on private and public debt. This particular political pigskin has been kicked enough to shame Jason Elam, but I’m glad it is getting more attention, because … Continue reading
Student debt data chilling
A chilling article in the NYT on both the ease and amount of debt for many students who choose higher education: Today, however, Ms. Munna, a 26-year-old graduate of New York University, has nearly $100,000 in student loan debt from her four years in … Continue reading
Kansas City’s second act
The budget rumbles begin, but the story in KC has a lot more context. To start, from the Wall Street Journal (or try the NYT): The Kansas City Missouri School Board voted Wednesday night to shutter nearly half of its schools in an … Continue reading
Posted in District Performance, Fiscal & Economic
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Infinity and beyond…
Pension discussions are not as interesting as DPS election hurling. But I think they will have a far greater impact over the long term. In many ways, the merger of the DPS pension into PERA makes it less of a local … Continue reading
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