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Pete Hoekstra: “The debate will be if we are only getting 65 cents of the dollar to the child, are we going to increase spending to…”

On the recordMarch 18, 1997
The debate will be if we are only getting 65 cents of the dollar to the child, are we going to increase spending to $1.20 to get up to 70 cents or 75 cents to the child, or are we going to take a look at that 30 to 35 cents and say that is too much going to bureaucrats and bureaucracy? Let us see if we cannot cut the overhead like we did in welfare, if we cannot cut the overhead in the bureaucracy and get the money to the child and get it to the classroom without having to increase taxes or increase deficit spending.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing education funding and the efficiency of government programs.

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