[pissant]

Instead of cutting 3.7 billion, cut the 54 billion and we'd be better off.

[fhlh]

School leaders warn that shrinking budgets will hurt their ability to improve learning among students regardless of race or poverty,
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... whatever...

[CWOJackson]

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.

[mak5]

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.

[kpp_kpp]

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.

[Tired of Taxes]

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.

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?

[The Old Hoosier]

CUT IT ALL!!!

[Bender2]

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?

[Smartaleck]

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

[Cobra64]

Personally, I'd give a 60 day warning for all the blood-suckers to leave DC. I cannot stand these assholes who's only objective is self aggrandizement and suck the worth of American workers. They are truly blood-suckers. They provide no goods or services to this country. Ergo they are unproductive pieces of manure.

/rant

[Cobra64]

Rewind two hundred years. What was the "budget"?

crickets

[Lancey Howard]

I thought that when Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education the idea was for it to be a giant money laundering operation for the Democrat Party. Why wouldn't the Republicans get rid of it now that they have the House, Senate, and White House? It makes no sense to keep it.

[Lancey Howard]

(( ping ))

I know that you are pretty astute when it comes to matters of education so can you fill me in on exactly, precisely WHAT the "Department of Education" DOES with $50+ billion every year? Any specifics would be greatly appreciated - - especially how much of that money (if any) actually finds its way to real live schools with classrooms and real live students. Thanks.