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Buried way down in the Tribune’s State of the State story today was this tasty little tidbit (emphasis added):

Perhaps one reason for a change of heart is the lack of legislative success that followed last year’s education focus, where he held up a sheaf of 2,800 pages he said represented the state’s burdensome school regulations. The legislature gave him only modest powers to reshape that bureaucracy.

Six months after he gained control of the [State Board of Education], not a page of regulations has been removed, and the staff he ridiculed has been trimmed by only three people, to 492 from 495.

He complained so loudly about the board’s overstuffed staff, but he’s only managed to reduce the headcount by three? I wonder if gross payroll has risen, since many of his new hires were political hacks brought in at high salaries.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Feb 4, 05 @ 10:30 am

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