[Vision2020] Education spending

[John Harrell]

Can someone tell me the constitutional amendment allowing the
federal government to fund education?

This is an important question.

Because if our own government doesn't have to follow its own laws,
then why should we? And moreover, why should the UN follow its own
laws? Should the UN be taxing us and funding education or anything
else for that matter? 

This is and has been a very slippery slope that has allowed our 
federal government to completely usurp its constitutional authority 
and very few people have a clue as to what this means. At this point
in US history, the federal government can basically do anything
it wants to, it is no longer bound by the rule of law. 

Are we a nation ruled by law, or are we a nation ruled by the wind?

Cheers!
John Harrell


--- Robert Probasco <rcprobasco@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> More spending is not answer
> By Rod Paige, US Secretary of Education.
> 
> 
> No idea in politics has hurt children more than the false and misleading
> idea that the quality of education is determined by how much we spend. 
> 
> For three decades, our nation and our political parties have debated and
> contentiously fought over the issue of money in education. But the facts
> are simple: What determines a child's future isn't how much is spent, but
> how wisely that money is spent.
> 
> If there is no accountability, or schools use unproven fads for
> instruction, it doesn't matter how much money is thrown at a problem; it
> will be wasted. 
> 
> Worse, wasteful spending and the debates about money have masked the
> problem.
> 
> More than 35 years after Congress passed the first Elementary and
> Secondary Education Act, public school spending per pupil has more than
> doubled — even when adjusted for inflation — from $3,331 in 1965-66 to
> $8,194 in 2000-2001.
> 
> In fact, the federal government has spent more than $321 billion on
> education programs since 1965. Every year, spending on K-12 education by
> all levels of government exceeds $400 billion.
> 
> Yet, citizens must ask, what have we gotten for all this? 
> 
> Fewer than a third of fourth-graders can read proficiently, according to
> the National Assessment of Educational Progress. That trend has been
> stagnant for two decades.
> 
> No, the problem isn't — and never has been — money alone. This is just
> the most tired of all excuses.
> 
> As a recent Americans for Better Education survey shows, 66% of
> registered voters believe that high standards and accountability are more
> important to improving our schools than increased funding. 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Posted 1/9/2003 8:04 PM  
>  
> read the entire article at: 
> http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2003-01-09-oppose_x.htm
> -- 
>   Robert Probasco
>   rcprobasco@fastmail.fm
> 
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