Re: Education

[Robert A Cohen <bbq@ESU.EDU>]

I hate to jump in on a conversation I know so little about (not that it
has stopped me before) but I have some nagging questions...

1. If we can take money out of the federal treasury and give it to the
states, can we take money out of the state treasury and give it to the
feds?

2. Instead of giving the money to the states to administer, can we give
the money directly to the school districts or, better yet, directly to the
teachers themselves?

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| Robert Cohen               Department of Physics       |
|                            East Stroudsburg University |
| bbq@esu.edu                East Stroudsburg, PA  18301 |
| http://www.esu.edu/~bbq/   (570) 422-3428              |
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jim Green wrote:

> [snip]
> Although I do not agree with the bulk of Bush's arguments, he is certainly
> correct that if the _people's_ money is left anywhere near Washington, it
> will be spent on something.
>
> On the other hand if the education money can be locked up in block grants,
> it will finally reach the students.
>
> Now some ask why one would think that state politicians are more competent
> than federal politicians.  They may not be -- but at least their income is
> not solely from political efforts and that they pay attention to local vote
> more assiduously than a Washington politician does.  Is it not clear that
> the closer to the public the political decisions are the better they will
> be? -- ie better for the local people -- at least to a reasonable
> approximation??
>
> On the other hand look at prime time TV.  Maybe the public should not be
> making any of the decisions.
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen