Mr. Andrew J. Coulson
What Really Determines School District Spending?
Professional advancement in a bureaucracy comes from increasing one’s budget, not from achieving more with less as it does in the private sector.
Andrew J. Coulson is the director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. and an adjunct fellow for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
Coulson is author of the book, "Market Education: The Unknown History," available from Transaction Publishers. He was a senior research associate at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center in Ohio. He has written numerous articles and essays for academic journals and for newspapers including The Wall Street Journal and The Seattle Times.