[Albion Wilde]

Over $130 billion in taxpayer-funded student aid, mostly student loans, flows to American colleges and universities every year. (That does not include the nearly $38 billion in research grants colleges receive...)...The scale of this intervention gives the Education Department the capability to dictate how colleges and universities run, since the loss of federal funding is a death sentence for most institutions.

Bring back the death penalty. Get the Feds out of education and education financing.

[napscoordinator]

Pass a law saying colleges and university cannot be given federal money....EVER. Problem solved.

[Maudeen]

DITCH COMMON CORE . . .NOW! IT HAS AND IS RUINING MATH PROGRAMS ALL ACROSS AMERICA (not to mention the students’ future). . . DUMMYING DOWN IS AND HAS BEEN ALL ALONG THE INTENT. I am subbing and last week I found that 2nd graders in this school district have no idea what they are doing, parents don’t have a clue and if students answer a simple math fact without showing detailed work on how they arrived at the answers, they get it marked wrong. I bought the entire class flash cards (addition and subtraction) along with an “I Love Math” pencil. This week a little girl from the class came up to me and said she and her mother are working with the flash cards. Memorization is good for the brain. Duh!

[1Old Pro]

Cut the budget, too much tax money.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

My state gives over a half billion dollars to our state collages. They take it and use it to hire a "diversity department" that does nothing to promote education.

This is while they have billion of dollars in endowments.

If we must have government grants then let them be for short term training programs rather then mostly worthless four year degrees from fat cat universities.