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Smart or Stupid Idea?

Debating whether cutting the 2009 budget for the U.S. Dept. of Education would be a smart or stupid decision, with Dan Mitchell, CATO; Christian Weller, Center for American Progress; and CNBC's Erin Burnett.

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  • no dept of education and no vouchers, just straight up free market.

  • Stop having that Christian guy on. He makes my blood boil. Seriously, how similar to the USSR do we have to get before this guy stops advocating socialism?

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  • @unknown1994ish Colleges raise their tuition so they can get more money from the government in the form of federal student aid. The cost of college education has inflated even faster than gasoline. If not for federal aid, college tuition would be a lot cheaper.

  • After graduating in a public high school i say destroy the department of education, but do not destroy the federal student aid it provides for college students

  • What they need to do is quit doling out so much money to students going to for-profit schools. They're scam artists who use predatory marketing techniques to get the poorest students who they KNOW will get money from the DOE to enroll, give them a usually subpar education, and send them out with tons of debt & a practically useless degree. The reason the DOE put out so much money is BECAUSE of these for-profit schools who enroll ANYONE.

  • National Standards he says. Is that code for central planning?

  • When I was a kid there was NO Dept. of Education, and American students led the world in all areas of academics. Since it's establishment, American schools and quality of education has seadily declined. D.O.E...what a joke. Let's go back to what works.

  • Obummer says no to voucher schools then turn around and sends his kids to a private school

  • Students in containers? Haha.

    Yeah, MAYBE there's something to the statement that the government can't do shit. I mean wtf...

  • I've been through school during the reign of the department of education and there is no balance at all. All we did was study for these tests. the worst part was that they are piss easy, and your mind starts to drift.

    the funny part is that schools have specialized so much that when you're a senior and you passed all the standardized tests, they have nothing for you to do. we sat there in class and talked for an entire school year.

  • get rid of it, total waste of money

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