Health costs sap state aid for schools: Education reform law falls short, report says

The Boston Globe reports:

Hundreds of millions of dollars the state has provided to local school districts to improve classroom education has instead been gobbled up by soaring health care costs for school employees, according to a new report that questions whether Massachusetts has fulfilled the ambitious goals of its 1993 education reform law.


From 2000 to 2007, annual health care costs in school budgets grew by $1 billion, while state aid for schools grew by only $700 million, according to the report being released today by the Boston Foundation.

No word yet from Ezra Klein on this one.