If the Dems are right and much, much more money will solve the problems of the US Education system, then why do we still have the poor?
Posted on 02/06/2006 7:06:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - President Bush's budget would cut money for education, the second straight time has he has sought less school spending after a first term of steady increases.
The Education Department would get $54.4 billion for discretionary spending in the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. That would amount to a cut of $3.7 billion, or 6.4 percent, from this year.
Bush would eliminate 42 education programs deemed unnecessary or inefficient, including some money for the arts, technology, parent-resource centers and drug-free schools.
Overall, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said, education has fared well under Bush, with larger percentage increases than any other domestic area outside of national security. But the big increases came early in Bush's first term after he won bipartisan support for his education law.
A year ago, Bush proposed cutting the education budget by 1 percent, to $56 billion from $56.6 billion. Congress eventually approved a slight increase instead — but that included a one-time boost of hurricane relief aid. Some major education programs got less money this year.
School leaders warn that shrinking budgets will hurt their ability to improve learning among students regardless of race or poverty, the goal of Bush's No Child Left Behind law in 2001.
Bush wants a new $100 million in vouchers for poor students to attend private schools or get extra tutoring. The money would go to students at schools that have not met their progress goals for five straight years and must be "restructured" under federal law.
But Congress rejected private vouchers when it passed the No Child Left Behind law. Congress has supported one only voucher experiment, for District of Columbia students.
The education budget is part of a $2.77 trillion plan that Bush sent to Congress on Monday. It shifts money to current White House priorities, under a theme of global competitiveness.
Those include math help for middle-school students, foreign language courses, and training for more high school teachers to lead college-level math and science courses.
Money for the biggest federal education program — aid to poor school districts, known as Title I funding — would stay at $12.7 billion.
Bush would end the federal vocational education program and shift its $1.2 billion toward expanded yearly testing and academic help for high school students. He tried to win approval for the same high school initiative last year, and Congress didn't consider it.
Instead of cutting 3.7 billion, cut the 54 billion and we'd be better off.
This is the third story I've seen on the budget and strange enough each has a different spin...albeit this one is a little more directed at a single item.
Odd article, considering that the Federal Department of Education doesn't educate any students. This is not a cut in school funding, it is a cut in Federal bureaucracy.
i'd like to know how much of that 54 billion ends up at the local school district? what percent?
take that number, give it to the states, and cut all the rest and dissolve the whole department.
Sounds like a good start.
School leaders warn that shrinking budgets will hurt their ability to improve learning among students regardless of race...
What is that supposed to mean?
What is that supposed to mean?
I don't know, but I think the NEA is making sure that students from some races don't improve more than the ones from other races, that way they'll all improve at the same rate.
Or at least they're making sure that all our children isn't learning, or something like that.
You beat me to it - what part of the US Constitution specifies that the Federal Government would pay for education among the states?
I'm with you.
Dated an NEA (National Education Association) Union member for a few years (I couldn't help myself, she had nice hooters).
She pretended to be conservative while I was with her, but her real colors came out when I left her.
Screw the NEA, Anti-American Commie bastards all of them.
Commerce clause? ROFL. 3/4 of federal spending needs to end. Let the states have a socialist mecca if they want, but not the feds.
If the Dems are right and much, much more money will solve the problems of the US Education system, then why do we still have the poor?
Cut the pill bill.
Education from 2001 to 2007 is up 35.7%
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/tables.html
All tables in HTML and PDF
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/budget.html
/rant
What does that mean? Is this one of those little three year old recordings on the Play School from Morons R Us
(shaking head)
crickets
One thing about Pat Buchanan, he was adamant about ending Federal involvement in education. He even called the Education Dept "a bunch of sandal-wearing hippies."
And when did this start? What was the purpose? What were the deliverables. Were they measured? Are they measured? I think we all get the point.
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