Foreign Competition May Push U.S. Health Reform
Published: August 29, 2005
As school employees move back into position this week, every district has funding worries and is crunching the numbers. One of the top cost issues is a school district's (read: taxpayer's) health-care benefit cost. In Grand Rapids Public Schools, for instance, pension and benefit costs are $1,915 per pupil ($6,782 foundation per pupil).

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