“Topeka, are you listening? Listen to what the educators are telling you. Respond to the empirical evidence and don’t assume that a few dollars saved here and there really don’t matter. They do.
Which costs more? Reducing school budgets or paying for the lifetime of kids who do not make it academically?”

http://www.rerouteroadmap.org/reality_at_truesdale_middle_school_more_students_less_money