Education Cost Studies Needed, Report Author Says
The Norman Transcript
Transcript Staff Writer
OKLAHOMA CITY –State leaders need a much better understanding the costs associated with meeting new education standards, the author of a controversial Oklahoma education study said this week.
John Augenblick, the president of Denver-based Augenblick, Palaich and Associates, defended his firm’s 2005 study of the way Oklahoma’s education system is funded, saying the questing of how much it cost a state to provide education services which meet governmental standards is “a pretty new question.”
Augenblick’s two-part study, “Calculating the Cost of an Adequate Education in Oklahoma,” analyzed the “adequacy of revenues available to elementary and secondary school districts in Oklahoma” for the 2003-2004 fiscal year.
