Need quick examples of Republicans trying to undercut the public schools

Thanks.

http://www.nea.org/lac/fy06edfunding/index.html

Bush '06 Budget Cuts Education Funding

An analysis of the President's FY '06 budget request compares the President's budget to the prior year and to the authorized level. The budget reduces overall education funding by nearly 1 percent below last year's level and is a more pronounced decline when compared to the authorized level.

The President's budget cuts the overall education budget for the first time in over a decade and proposes to eliminate funding for 48 programs including vocational education, state technology grants and the Safe and Drug Free Schools program.

Most of the money that was gained by eliminating programs went for increases to Title I ($603 million) and IDEA ($508 million), though these amounts are considerably less than the levels authorized for these programs. The remaining funds went to extending the "No Child Left Behind" program into the high schools and the proposed program for merit pay for teachers.

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was recently increased by Congress.

This budget shows negative amounts in the reauthorization column. Just because they rerouted some funds, doesn't mean that program didn't take a hit.

http://www.nea.org/lac/fy06edfunding/images/06ideacompare.pdf

Other budget docs:
http://www.nea.org/lac/fy06edfunding/index.html#charts

Do you have a link or source for your info?

explaining changes in the law and outlining the funding increase.

negotiated a funding deal then reneged on the whole thing. even tho he has proposed a 2 billion increase in school spending, the other deal was even better....so moral is to NOT trust arnold. they are running tv ads with allegedly real teachers talking about the 2 billion but NOTHING about the reneged deal of course. arnie is anti union big time. must be a left over from his lousy movie days.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

is merely a tool to take federal funding away from public schools and fund vouchers. The really despicable part is that schools that stand to lose funding are those serving our neediest kids.

theres your quick example alright...

but I think folks who haven't paid much attention to it may not realize it is an ingenious way to get federal money for vouchers.

What more proof do you need?

details?

http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/nclb/

Every Child Left Behind: Three Years of Unfunded Mandates
The President Has Repeatedly Broken His Promise to Provide Federal Support for Education. In the two years since the President signed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, none of his budgets have come close to meeting the level of funding authorized in the Act. The FY 2004 budget submitted by President Bush fell $9 billion short of the amount authorized for 2004 and his FY 2003 budget fell $7.2 billion short of approved funding.


Federal Education Reform Taxes State and Local Governments With Unfunded Mandates. In February 2003, the bipartisan National Governors Association voted unanimously to label Bush's No Child Left Behind Act an unfunded mandate, along with special education, homeland security and Medicaid. A November 2003 survey of nearly 2,000 superintendents and principals found that 9 in 10 viewed No Child Left Behind as an unfunded mandate. States and localities have struggled to keep up with the new requirements. Between fiscal years 2002 and 2004, education spending in 35 states was unable to keep pace with increases in inflation and enrollment.

Bush Failed to Provide Purchasing Power For His No Child Left Behind Act. The FY 2004 funding failure is $1.4 billion below what would be required to maintain 2003 purchasing power next year. Bush's FY 2003 budget proposal was little better, falling $7.2 billion short of funding approved for FY 2003 in the original legislation.

Bush Fails To Support Children From Low-Income Families, the Centerpiece of No Child Left Behind. The President's budgets since the enactment of No Child Left Behind have repeatedly failed to fund Title I funding, the key federal mechanism for educating poor children and encouraging reform at the state and local level. The President's FY 2003 budget was $ 4.6 billion short of that authorized by his own No Child Left Behind Act. Bush's FY 2004 budget called for $6 billion less in Title I funding. The President has already admitted that his new FY2005 budget set to be released shortly will fall $7 billion short of the amount authorized, meaning that 4.6 million children nationwide will not receive the education the President promised them.

Bush Administration Inaccurately Claimed Budget Increases In Title I Funding. The Washington Post reported that the Education Department distributed a fact sheet that claimed "if President Bush's 2004 proposed education budget is enacted, Title I funding will have increased 41 percent since No Child Left Behind was signed into law." In fact, "when the 'No Child Left Behind' legislation was signed in January 2002, spending on the Title I education program was $10.35 billion (Bush had requested $9.06 billion). The president's proposal for 2004 is $12.35 billion, a 19 percent increase." Even this falls fall short of what Bush's program promised

Bush Administration Spends Fifty Times More on Tax Cuts Than Increased Education Spending. Federal tax cuts over the past two fiscal years totaled $478 billion, while Department of Education spending increased $9.4 billion -- a ratio of more than 50 to 1. Overall spending by the Department of Education increased from $56.2 billion in FY 2002 to $60.4 billion in FY 2003 to $61.4 billion in FY 2004 (projected) leaving a total of $9.4 billion in additional spending over the past two fiscal years. During that same period the federal government handed out $186 billion in tax cuts in FY 2003 and $292 billion in FY 2004 for a total of $478 billion in lost tax revenue.