I confess not reading the entire article. The excerpt sounds like Rand Paul advocates continuing to spend “$100 Billion” from the federal budget, but by doling it out directly to the states, with a federal bureaucracy in the middle.
I am NOT pleased with that idea at all. The federal D.O.E. needs to go, by cutting federal education programs and spending about 15% annually until it reaches zero, to allow for the transition to freedom. States and Localities should fund state and local education from the resources of the people they serve, to the extent those people want services. The only way to avoid obeying federal orders is to stop taking federal funding.
Yes, I took that from the excerpt as well. He’s fine with the spending, just not the department. We need to zero out both, and he’s weasel-wording the job. I don’t think he can be trusted.
Well what I would do is I would have its spent on the state and local level. I wouldn't take it up there at all, I'd leave it at leave it at home. So you'd spend the money. You might still spend the money in your state government, but education even now, 90, 95-percent of your education dollars are state and local. That $100 billion gets rolled around in a big bureaucracy. They sent rules down that don't help education, they hinder innovation. I would cut them out of the loop. I don't think you'd notice if the whole department was gone tomorrow.
I absolutely agree with you. Paul did not go far enough (I admit I did not click the link yet either) - whatever monies might be spent locally on education should be up to each locality. Far, far too much money is spent and now it’s either just pouring down a rat hole or positively destroying children, and thus the future.