Joe Soucheray: Cutting the pittance set aside for private schools? Typical

It s beyond disingenuous even by the standards of the Tim Walz administration to deprive private schools of million in the upcoming budget preparation in the name of reflecting positive balances on the bottom line You want to take way the pocket change that has been helping private schools for years You could find million in the couch cushions at the Department of Instruction or Strength and Human Services or at Walz s office or any government or agencies that have watched incompetently money fraudulently leak out of the Capitol to the tune now of more than million That million is all the private schools get by the way It is used for busing and selected textbooks and counseling and nursing Nursing You know for when the governor mandates masks and vaccines and things like that The taxpayers are already paying for these services on top of the sacrifices they make to pay for the private school tuition And we re supposed to believe that after Walz signed off on blowing a more than billion budget surplus and presiding over more than million in taxpayer money lost to fraud that he suddenly developed a keen interest in fiduciary responsibility And he wants to take it out on private school kids or more to the point their parents who know when they sign up they are paying twice for their kid and a constituents school kid It is far more likely that Walz finds private tuition disagreeable to his ideological flirtations and that he can look smart to Guidance Minnesota the union that supports him and whose members cannot possibly educate a child as inexpensively as a private school Back in state statute required citizens school districts to provide private school children with transportation within the citizens school s districts in an effort to provide equality of healing in transportation In Minnesota began providing nonpublic learner aid in the form of textbooks instructional materials standardized tests and particular guidance counseling and vitality services It s been on the books for years It absolutely could not happen nowadays The people we ve managed to elect are bulk often appalled at the idea of schooling other than what the state commands Private schools are not burdened by the layers and layers and layers of bureaucratic balderdash from the state They don t have five assistant principals Usually one principal and she ll wonder why your uniform shirt isn t tucked in They can operate streamlined thus more efficiently and at less cost A bulletproof argument can be made that private schools save the state money Using figures I ve been intimately familiar with during the years in question the private schools can educate a kid for about a year while it approaches a year in the citizens academies It should not go unmentioned that the state is facing a billion budget shortfall I suppose it stands to reason that if you irresponsibly blow an unimaginably huge surplus on God knows how a multitude of new state programs the till is bound to be short a meager bucks come the next budget cycle That s the cycle we re in the next one The bills are due from that wild DFL frat party you all had to celebrate your trifecta You re short by an astounding billion Boy that s various governing And this guy is out on tour hoping to get noticed as a presidential hopeful Cutting the pittance set aside for private schools could land only a very soft blow to billion Why billion won t even feel the punch It s typical of how the Walz administration treats the taxpayers It s an insult Joe Soucheray can be reached at jsoucheray pioneerpress com Soucheray s Garage Logic podcast can be heard at garagelogic com Related Articles Maria Toso Downtown s in bad shape But we can make it really good Real World Economics The Minneapolis Fed was right all along Skywatch The two brightest stars and a guest star Your Money Simplifying your financial life Working Strategies Using AI to organize or even conduct your job search