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http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/edhistory.pdf http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/edhistory.p... Appropriations since 1980 add up

http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/edhistory.pdf http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/budget/history/edhistory.p... Appropriations since 1980 add up to about $1.334 trillion. This is not inflation adjusted, however, so the equivalent amount in 2014 dollars would be much higher. I wish they had given NASA that money instead and maybe we'd have a colony on the moon by now.

lotsofmangos 12y ago
You have to factor in the cost of the programs it replaced, given it was largely created by transferring education programs from other government departments. Also, you have given no references whatsoever for your claimed steady decline in literacy and maths since 1979.