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Originally posted by bilmore
Just curious, as I haven't spent too much attention on this issue - how can education be an unfunded mandate when the fed ed spending under Bush has increased 60+%? Am I getting my figures wrong?
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The funding increases could be earmarked for other projects. Or they might not cover the cost of complying with the NCLBA. But I haven't been following it either, so your guess is as good as mine.
Some districts (states?) have been seriously considering foregoing all fed educational funding and dumping all the Fed regulations because they would lose less money than they would spend complying ... no cite offhand but I read this quite recently somewhere respectable (Economist?). The percentage of school funding that comes from the feds is really pretty low, in the 'teens, often.
