I got an email tonight, from a voter:

Dear Legislator:

It is with great anticipation that I, and many Nevada parents like me, await your decisions regarding funding education for the upcoming year, and for the future. Funding for education is the single most important issue facing this state, and will determine whether our state will continue to wallow in the shame associated with being among the lowest states in the nation in funding for our students’ education. This decision will affect our status as a growing and progressive state in the eyes of the rest of the nation.

There are many of us who don’t have the time and resources to travel to Carson City to make ourselves heard. Even attending a video conference here in Las Vegas is a difficult undertaking for some of us. Please don’t let that in any way lead you to believe that there are not a great deal of us listening, watching, and caring about the decisions that are before you. The education funding issue is of primary importance to all of us as Nevadans.

An inadequate education will mean an inadequate labor force to meet the future needs of Nevada. Please don’t let us down!

Very truly yours,

A CPA and Mother

I wrote back:

Good news, Diane! We are, in fact, not among the lowest states in our nation in education funding! That is fiction perpetrated by our professional educrat community (coincidentally, paid above the national average for educators and administrators, and well above our surrounding states), who claim we are amongst the lowest in operating costs per student. They accomplish this by having their accountants misclassify a chunk of operating funds as capital funds (in educrat talk, it’s actually “non-current” funding). Since you’re a CPA, you’ll understand this allegory: if you misclassified your current assets as long-term assets, you’ll drive your current ratio into the basement, but still have a business that is plenty liquid.

The National Center for Education Statistics, run by the US Dept. of Education, can’t be buffaloed as easily as parents who don’t have the time to untangle our educrat’s deceptive rhetoric. They rank us around 35th of 51 states in education funding.

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