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Bob Schaffer: “This chart to my right explains how Federal education funds get from a taxpayer to a student here at the bottom. It is…”

On the recordJune 12, 2002
This chart to my right explains how Federal education funds get from a taxpayer to a student here at the bottom. It is funneled through all of these different agencies: The U.S. Treasury Department, the Congress, the U.S. Department of Education. Those dollars are distributed through the States, through State legislators, the politicians, the State board of education, the school district, the politicians and to the school. By the time the dollar makes it through this rigid process, there is scarcely 60 cents left of every dollar. What we are proposing is bypassing this nonsense and getting the money directly to children through a choice mechanism and more of a free market approach to schools.
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Bob Schaffer
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Discussing the distribution of federal education funds and proposing a direct funding approach to students.

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