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The Trail of a Comment

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

I left a comment at a Washington Post blog on Wednesday. It has been well-traveled ever since. A commenter there claimed that Palin had slashed special education funding by 62%. I found this claim implausible, so I did just a few minutes of digging. Sure enough, that commenter had made the elementary error of failing to check to see whether one line item had been moved elsewhere in the budget -- as it had. In fact, funding had increased for the items in question. So here was my comment: A commenter (Jim Syar) accused Sarah Palin of reducing the special education budget by 62%. That is false. The special education budget actually increased by nearly 12%, as explained below. As Syar correctly notes, the Alaska 2007 budget for special education was $8,265,300...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on September 05, 2008 (boomark / email).