Quicker than expected...

In an article I wrote for the K-12 Partnership Report, I argued that government funding for education would continue to contract due to some major fundamental trends in our existing spending obligations. One of those trends is the gradual change from surplus to deficit in Social Security revenues, a change expected to occur in 2017.

Guess what? According to AEI, it's actually starting to happen now, eight years ahead of schedule. Yikes.

K-12 Partnership Report update

We launched a subscription-based newsletter in January of this year, (the K-12 Partnership Report - see here), and I had planned to post the occasional article here for broader distribution. I'm a bit late, so here are a few at once (all in PDF format):

• The entire January 2009 issue, which we've made available as a free sample copy
• Operation Excellence, a case study from our February 2009 issue
• The Case for Community-School Partnerships, the feature article from our March 2009 issue

Enjoy - and please do share thoughts/comments. I'd love the feedback, either here or by email.