I don’t know Michele Catalano from a hole in the wall–I just know she helped found The Command Post and that some neat people around the blogosphere like her–but man, she’s dead wrong about voting down school budgets. The tipoff should have been that she agreed with creepy ur-conservative John Derbyshire–always a bad sign.
The long and the short of the budget situation is that regardless of whether or not the money could be better spent than it is in whatever budget you’re voting on, voting it down will do nothing to change that and everything to hurt the people who deserve it least, namely the children and the teachers. The time to change how the school board devises the budget is when it comes time to elect the school board, not vote on the budget.
If you live on Long Island, please vote yes on your district’s budget today!
And, um, hi, Michele!