Actually several trillion.
Since its unconstitutional creation in 1980, the Department of Education has spent more than ONE TRILLION dollars in taxpayer money. And nobody can name a single academic metric that has actually improved.
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Most people I know are shocked when they learn how much we actually spend per pupil.
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The Department of Education was created as a payoff for the teacher unions' support for Jimmy Carter. A very expensive bit of concern-signalling.
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Reminds me of what in economics os called the Keynesian Multiplier (a myth), only applied specifically here to the Department of Education, that autonomous increases in government spending generates greater expansion of knowledge and virtue (also a myth).
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Psssh, we spend that in a week these days. (Also without positive result - in that we are consistent.)
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No wonder why I had a good education pre 1980.
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With population growth comes inefficiencies. This is especially true when the disparity in poverty levels are even more substantial.
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Is radical ideology an academic metric?
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Typical for government. It is just a program to hire friends & relatives anyway.
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