{"id":248051,"date":"2010-01-29T18:36:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/increasing-education-spending-really-good-news-38788\/"},"modified":"2010-01-29T18:36:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T23:36:54","slug":"is-increasing-education-spending-really-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/248051","title":{"rendered":"Is Increasing Education Spending Really Good News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 01.29.10 02:58 PM posted by Dan Lips<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iranian-prez-welcomed100128.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/iranian-prez-welcomed100128.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We received an email today from Education Secretary Arne Duncan.  \u0093By now, I expect you\u0092ve heard the good news,\u0094 the Secretary wrote.  \u0093\u0085at a time when most government spending is frozen, the President proposed a significant increase in discretionary spending for education in his fiscal year 2011 budget.\u0094<\/p>\n<p>We were tempted to respond: What makes you think we\u0092d think this is good news?<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Duncan\u0092s email offered a sneak-peak of the highlights of the Obama administration\u0092s 2011 budget for education:  \u0093a massive increase in student aid\u0094 ($156 billion for 2011), a $4 billion increase for K-12 education programs, and new funding ($9.3 billion over 10 years) for a new federal preschool program.<\/p>\n<p>But is this really good news for American students and taxpayers?  Past experiences suggest the answer is negative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In higher education, decades of increasing spending on federal student aid has failed to solve the college affordability problem, and evidence suggests that rising subsidies have spurred skyrocketing tuition costs.<\/li>\n<li>In K-12 education, the ever-expanding federal role has done little to fix the crises in our nation\u0092s classrooms.   Since the 1970s, federal per-student spending has tripled, while long-term test scores are relatively flat and the performance in many school districts remains abysmal.<\/li>\n<li>A new national evaluation of the federal Head Start program found that the largest federal preschool program, which has received $167 billion since 1965, is a complete failure\u0097providing zero lasting benefits for students by the end of first grade.  Little is known about the effectiveness of the other 68 federal preschool and child care programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u0092s easy to see why Secretary Duncan would see this budget proposal as good news.  But we\u0092d hope he\u0092d understand why American taxpayers and students might think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/29\/is-increasing-education-spending-really-good-news\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/29\/&#8230;lly-good-news\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 01.29.10 02:58 PM posted by Dan Lips We received an email today from Education Secretary Arne Duncan. \u0093By now, I expect you\u0092ve heard the good news,\u0094 the Secretary wrote. \u0093\u0085at a time when most government spending is frozen, the President proposed a significant increase in discretionary spending for education in his fiscal year 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}