What follows is a recent media headline and before you think too long and hard about it, what is your first reaction to: Every K-12 School Kid Gets Record State Support.

You’re maybe thinking, wow this is good news for our students or they really need help in these challenging times or congrats to the governor and the bi-partisan vote by state lawmakers. And if that is the way you react, you just produced a bunch of smiles for all the lawmakers and governor who passed it.

Your reaction is totally justified given the fact that the $10,050 per pupil grant was historic and a record. But as Paul Harvey use to say, hold that good feeling while you digest the rest of the story…the one the headline did not cover. Not all the schools got an increase.

“For some districts, yeah, it is a wash or v

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