tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329279.post7309148896397838417..comments2023-08-25T05:18:29.312-06:00Comments on Madville Times: Rounds Says Ax K-12 Education 5%: I Say Invest in Studentscaheidelbergerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03261598066395322681noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329279.post-56816238462031801612010-12-08T06:46:29.815-07:002010-12-08T06:46:29.815-07:00Good points, Tony. I heard nothing in Rounds's...Good points, Tony. I heard nothing in Rounds's farewell budget that talked much beyond the next three years. This budget was all about balancing the FY2012 books, not about really putting our tax dollars to work. Even if you're broke (and our state is not), you still have to plan ahead.caheidelbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03261598066395322681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15329279.post-15018717399285490682010-12-07T17:14:11.183-07:002010-12-07T17:14:11.183-07:00CAH-
Just a note, the NYU system just finished a ...CAH-<br /><br />Just a note, the NYU system just finished a 3 year, $1 billion research campus development project. The campus was structured in such a fashion that it didn't even have targeted technologies before development started.<br /><br />But, they understand that such investments pay for themselves with huge dividends over the next 5-10 years. Researchers will move in, intellectual property will be captured, and companies will be formed.<br /><br />They have the long term planning to know that sometimes investments in such things take a long time to payoff (note that they have done this before, this is the 7th such campus over the last 30 years). <br /><br />The structural problem that we run into in SD is that no one looks beyond 3 years. Why educate a 3rd grader if it won't pay off for another 20 years?<br /><br />Things will only change with a charismatic leader to push a new, long term vision paradigm rather than these short term apologists that we have been electing.<br /><br />Even our friends in North Dakota have recognized the need for long term investment. For FY2010 they invested almost 10x more into their university system for research than we did (note, research, not general teaching budget).Tony Amerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00926509220711589398noreply@blogger.com