What Else Am I Going To Do, Stay Here and Learn

A Washington Post story today highlighted that if President Bush is re-elected, small budget cuts across a wide swath of departments will occur. That news in and of itself isn’t anything to crow about, but what is potentially interesting is that the largest cuts would come from the Education Department.

The article states that “the administration has widely touted a $1.7 billion increase in discretionary funding for the Education Department in its 2005 budget.” With the budget cuts for 2006, the Education Department will be pared back by $1.5 billion, essentially erasing the previous increase in funding.

As El Duderino noted in a previous column, the much-ballyhooed No Child Left Behind Act has seen much criticism from educators due to its lack of monetary support from the Bush administration that created the act in the first place (i.e. this isn’t a case of a new administration not agreeing with a previous administration’s policy).

As the election season rolls on and the level of political mumbo jumbo increases from both sides, it’ll be interesting to see how this information is portrayed. If Bush continues to portray himself as the education president based on NCLB, well, it’ll be interesting to see the results.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58762-2004May26.html

I’m sure half of the El Duderino’s two readers are oft-confused by the headlines, so I’ve decided to provide a quick reasoning at the end of each post… sort of like the column ESPN used to have that translated Dennis Miller comments when he was an analyst on Monday Night Football.

Headline Quote Movie of Origin: Road Trip

Character: E.L. (aka Stifler, also known as Seann William Scott)

Setting: Stifler providing Josh with his reasoning on why he will travel cross-country with him to intercept the sexually explicit video tape that was accidentally sent to Josh’s girlfriend.

The quotes is relevant to this story how?: E.L. is an example of the type of miscreant that has resulted from a generation of inadequate funding levels for our nation’s schools. His use of college as a means to delay responsibility is an outrage and indicative of what we face as a society if the status quo is not changed

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