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Originally posted by Jeff
Just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I wish Bush would put some money into education instead.
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Wish granted.
In 1992, the Dept. of Ed. was appropriated some $32.2 billion. In 2000, at the end of Clinton's second term, it was appropriated $38.4 billion - an increase of almost 20%.
Under the Bush administration, the Department of Education has seen its budget balloon to an appropriation of $56.2 billion in 2002. That's an increase of 46% in two years.
[Source -
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/Budget.../EDhistory.pdf]
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