I suppose not too many readers remember the television sitcom, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, from the late 1950s, early 1960s (Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl remembers because she acted in it) but one character, beatnik Maynard G. Krebs, often talked about a movie that he saw many times: The Monster that Devoured Cleveland. That fictional movie title came instantly to mind when reading about the pension costs that are eating up California education budgets, and created a fitting title for what is happening in the state’s education circles: The Pension Monster that Devoured Education.
Signs of lost revenue for classroom education because of pension and health care costs are all around.
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