[aardvark1]

I had the privelege of hearing Bill Bennett speak of our current fed ed dept as a place where you send them a dollar and they send 66 cents back to you.

[KentuckyWoman]

you send them a dollar and they send 66 cents back to you

I would have imagined that 66 cents figure to be much lower. I find it hard to believe that the government is only taking approx. 1/3 for themselves. Of course, this figure probably doesn't include what the state depts. of ed take out to run their own little bureaucracies. Education ran much better when the LOCAL taxpayers funded it and CONTROLLED it.