10-07-2002, 03:12 PM
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Originally posted by skywalker:
I believe that you don't know anything about Jeffords, MagiK. And that you are simply generalising just to make him fit the model of the dumb@$$ liberal politician. That's what I think.
Mark
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Ahh I see we are back on hostile terms again *sigh*
I never said all liberals are dumbasses either by the way. I dislike Jeffords because of what he has done and howhe has acted that I know about. He may be a fine human being for all I know.
Heres some information about the US education spending, if you are actually interested.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Edu...258.cfm</font>
Here are some more Bush Education plan tidbits from the US Department of Education.
The President is requesting $44.5 billion in discretionary appropriations for the Department of Education in fiscal year 2002, an 11.5 percent increase in budget authority and an increase of $2.5 billion or 5.9 percent over the 2001 program level. The Department received the largest percentage increase in the President's 2002 budget of any Cabinet-level domestic agency.
Major increases in the 2002 request include $1 billion for Special Education Grants to States, $1 billion for Pell Grants, $614 million for the Reading First State Grants initiative, $459 million for Title I Grants to Local Educational Agenciesóof which $175 million will expand State and local assistance to low-performing schools, $375 million for the State Grants for Improving Teacher Quality proposal, $320 million to help States develop and implement annual reading and math tests for all students in grades 3-8, and $175 million for a new Charter School Homestead Fund to help increase public school choice for parents and students.
That is 44.5 billion in direct federal funding, which doesnt even bring into the picture how many billions each state puts into the education system. There are roughly 100,000 public schools in the USA. Each state also pumps several billion into its schools systems, and then there are the private contracts that the schools make money off of. The get money from coke or pepsi, from Pizza Hut and Uncle Bens. The number of dollars spent for our educational is stupendous and we get a third or fourth rate product for our money.
Numbers and facts gathered from several government websites. Funny how they don't make these numbers all available in one easy to find place...sounds like they are trying to hide something.
[ 10-07-2002, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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