Budget Shenanigans at the St. Paul Schools

My kids both attend the St. Paul Public schools. Now, I'm not like a lot of conservatives - my dad taught public school for nearly 40 years, and I'm not one to attack the public school system by reflex.

But all is not well. Despite booming budgets and skyrocketing property taxes to pay for them, the SPPS is starved for cash - or is sure acting like it is. My son came home from school and said his teacher had told him "paper is as valuable as gold" at his school.

So money's tight.

But there's growing evidence that the St. Paul Public Schools made a political contribution to a political action committee, for political reasons. (All but one member of the St. Paul School Board are Democrats, endorsed by the Teachers Union, among others). Money that our students need - and that taxpayers of all political stripes assumed was going toward teachers, books and maintenance - has apparently been diverted to the coffers of a local liberal politcal organization.

More on this as I run down the last of the details.