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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: koan who wrote (546064)1/29/2010 4:03:19 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 1576167
 
A Responsible Choice
by Adam B. Schaeffer
Added to cato.org on January 28, 2010

Fiscal crises demand efficiency in education.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed spending another $4 billion annually on K–12 public education. He did not mention that state, local, and federal governments already spend well over twice what they did in 1980, or that there has been no discernible improvement in student achievement during that period.

Especially in the current economic climate, the president would have been better served backing a policy with a proven record of improving achievement and saving money: school choice.

State and local budgets ...

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