Today’s Rome News-Tribune comments on Georgia’s once vaunted pre-K program based on the Southern Educations Foundation’s report issued two weeks ago. With an abundant funding source in the state lottery, it’s hard to accept the lack of enrollment slots and decrease in per student spending.
GEORGIA’S government has gotten quite talented at using the “poor mouth” excuse for all that ails the state. It goes this way:
“We just don’t have the money to do that without raising your taxes. We love you too much to do that and, besides, we think we’re taxing you too much already.”
OK, let’s grant that there are some citizens who prefer keeping the jingle in their pockets to having good schools, smooth roads, sufficient water, adequate health care and so on. But how does Georgia explain the decay of a program that doesn’t involve any tax money at all and whose bank accounts are as flush as those of King Midas?
