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Billy wrote:

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Don Homuth dhomuthoneatcomcast.net@ wrote:

I'd cut federal direct expenditures on K-12 education pretty much
completely, save for Special Education and Title 1.

and you'd be wrong. Every dollar spent on education generates $5 to $10
for our country. Cutting education is the quickest way to turn us into a
third would country.

Go to Google and type in "very dollar spent on education generates ".
Yep, but education is the responsibility of the localities in every
state and the government money is not a real big part of most budgets
and there are some indications that by the time you wade through the
requirements of getting the money, accounting for the money, and keeping
up with all the strings, it may actually a negative for the schools.