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To: Brumar89 who wrote (404031)	8/4/2008 11:40:07 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584252

Public schools are financed by property taxes and the local governments of most inner cities are not Republican. That is where a portion of their funds come from.....the rest is from the state and the feds. You've heard of No child left behind.....where fed funding is tied into a school's performance. Why don't you know this? Now this is what's really happening with education funding in this country: "The Federal Education Budget Project finds that although Congress plans a significant increase in federal spending on schools, teachers, and students -- the most significant this decade when considering discretionary and mandatory sources -- education funding has not been a driver of recent increases in federal spending and the contemplated increase is relatively minor with respect to the overall budget. Opponents of proposed increases in education spending argue that the overall federal budget is growing faster than is prudent, and this argument is likely to be a key component of this year’s budget debate. One could argue against proposed increased spending on education because of concerns about program effectiveness, efficiency, or value, but any attempt to single out education spending as the main driver of a federal budget that some believe has become too large would be misguided. newamerica.net See.........when Republicans get worried about a growing fed. budget, they don't cut back on military spending or pork, they cut back on programs they don't like.....like education. The increase they talk about up above was the first significant one of this decade and came after the Dems took control of the House. I don't think it passed Bush's veto.