To the Editor

Today's editorial missed the mark by tacitly endorsing a supposed correlation between education expenditures and student academic achievement. Great Britain and several other nations whose students consistently (and considerably) out-perform ours in reading proficiency, math, and science spend far less than we. NJEA protests and propoganda notwithstanding, taxpayers are receiving an unacceptable return on our investment. Quality and allocation of resources seem to have a greater impact on educational outcomes than dollars allocated. Salary freezes and staff/service reductions--in education as elsewhere throughout our fragile economy--are not mutually-exclusive, either/or options; they both are painful and essential (but still insufficient) measures to help right our foundering ship of state. I did not support candidate Christie, but I applaud the governor's political courage in confronting powerful special interests and proponents of business as usual.