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The 1996 GOP platform called for abolishing the Department of Education and ending "federal meddling in schools.", it also called for eliminating the departments of Commerce, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts.

They removed all of this from the GOP platform in 2000, and have been moving further to the left ever since.

The $56 billion in total discretionary funding for federal education is an all-time high. Under President Bush, in just three years the Education Department’s overall funding will have increased by $13.8 billion.

Federal education spending has increased by 118 percent from 1996 (the first fiscal year under a Republican majority in Congress) to 2002. The President’s FY 2004 builds on that increase.

The 1996 GOP platform called for abolishing the Department of Education and ending "federal meddling in schools.", it also called for eliminating the departments of Commerce, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Thanks. You are supporting my point entirely. The fact is the GOP continues to move to the left with every election. And the claims by some that this is just to get votes for relection and then it will be overturned are baloney.

Yes right now at all levels, State, Local, Federal, we are spending close to $1 Trillion on Education. If you listen to the NEA and others it isn't enough. It will never be enough. Continuing to throw money at Eduaction will never ssolve the problems and there will still be low test scores.