After a series of court-ordered funding increases, “poor” schools in New Jersey now have some of the highest per-pupil spending in America. But their performance is still bad, so the New Jersey Supreme Court has just ordered that state – which is already $11 billion in debt – to spend half a billion dollars more on those particular schools.
Do you think this infusion of cash will work after earlier ones didn’t?
More importantly, do you think judges, rather than elected lawmakers, should be making such decisions?