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10-04-2004 11:24 AM |
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Originally posted by 12clicks
I love uneducated rabble.
http://edworkforce.house.gov/press/p...imoney7102.htm
"""__ President Bush?s reforms are linked to the largest single-year increase in history for federal elementary and secondary education funding -- a 27 percent increase ($4.8 billion). The increase takes effect on July 1, 2002, according to the U.S. Department of Education."""
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=3131
"""The Fiscal Year 2005 budget for the Department of Homeland Security builds upon the significant investments to date that improve our safeguards against terrorism, while also sustaining the many important departmental activities not directly related to our fight against terrorism. The President's budget clearly demonstrates the continuing priority placed on Homeland Security in requesting total new resources for FY 2005 of $40.2 billion. This is an increase of 10% above the comparable FY 2004 resource level."""
I guess when you're this dumb, its easy to vote for kerry.
llok, kerry's holding a shiny penny!:1orglaugh
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pretty promises, abysmal reality, the trademark of the Republican party.
But perhaps worst of all, the president and Congress have consistently underfunded the NCLB budget. The president's own 2004 budget proposal would underfund the act to the tune of $9 billion, leaving local communities ? many of which are already facing severe budget gaps ? to make up the difference. It is absolutely unconscionable for the president to demand that states pay for federally required programs without properly funding them.
Since NCLB passed, we have been hearing horror stories from states desperately looking for money to meet requirements. Schools in Edmonds, Wash., laid off 193 teachers and staff, while districts across the state of Washington have started charging thousands of dollars to enroll children in kindergarten.
Most communities will likely meet NCLB budget shortfalls by raising property taxes, local government's usual source of education funding. Washington's property taxes increased nearly 10 percent from 2001 to 2003. And many other states have followed suit since Bush took office.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...90_dean08.html
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