Bad Math = Bad Policy
Last week, Utah’s Provo Daily Herald editorialized away a proposed increase in school spending thusly:
The reason that Utah spends less per pupil is mainly because there are more pupils per household. Once the equation is corrected to account for that — in other words, assume that Utah had family sizes in line with the national average — the amount of money spent per pupil would rise, and Utah would land in the middle of the pack of states.
Perhaps this same editorial board should go back to school themselves – for remedial mathematics and common sense.
