All Opinions Are Local - Sacred cows in D.C.'s child services budget

All Opinions Are Local - Sacred cows in D.C.'s child services budget: "Ideally, a budget crisis would bring out the best in our public officials — a search for creative solutions and a willingness to take on even the most sacred cows to spare those who will suffer most as belts tighten and axes fall.

Not in the District, where, as part of a battle over closing a gap in the current budget, public officials pitted one of the groups most in need, impoverished children at risk of being placed in foster care, against another, children already in foster care. Meanwhile, alternative cuts that might advance the public good even as they save money were never even discussed."