Education Funding
Lessons in U.S. Spending
You Do the Math
Do These Numbers Add Up? The 2009 defense budget is $513.3 billion, while the 2009 education budget is $45.4 billion. However, the education budget will more than double over the next two years.
Competition Helps Us Compete Nearly 50 million students attended public schools last fall, costing taxpayers an estimated $519 billion. Would students be better off in charter schools, with more accountability and smaller class sizes?
Higher Education Required Sixteen million students fill out a 153-question federal financial aid application every year. FAFSA improvements will simplify this process. Any student who wants to go to college should be able to attend, right?
