Trump Education Budget Cuts Over 10% of Useless Federal Spending By Rob Shimshock
February 17, 2018 at 11:41am
The Department of Education requested over 10 percent less funding for its 2018 budget, and an education scholar explained Friday why he supported the decision. The Trump administration requested $59.9 billion for 2018 — an amount $7.1 billion smaller than its 2017 budget.
Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute, explained to The Daily Caller News Foundation why that is a good thing.
“To eliminate those programs is a real plus for taxpayers and a real plus for students,” Izumi said, commenting on the Education Department’s elimination of funding to 17 programs it described as “duplicative” and “ineffective.” The education scholar highlighted the after-school, learning-oriented 21st Century Community Learning Centers (one of the initiatives the Department eliminated) as a particularly wasteful program.
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“The problem is that virtually all the studies and research that’s been done on the program shows that there’s no connection between participation in this program and improved student performance in reading and mathematics.”
He said the U.S. Government Accountability Office examined 58 different 21st Century Community Learning Centers and discovered no correlation between enrollment in the programs and increased reading scores. In fact, “students produced lower reading scores by participating compared to
“You have very poor attendance among the student participants in the program…less than 50 percent of the students who attend more than 30 days.” “Why should we be spending all this money, these billions of dollars on a program that all of the data shows is not achieving its purpose?”
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Poster Comment:
Trump is doing the right thing by slashing Education Department budget since it has useless results.