A Spending Education

Milwaukee gets money for unneeded schools.

o understand the problem with the stimulus bill, it helps to focus on specific parts. Take the $142 billion for schools, which is nearly double the total outlays of the Department of Education in 2007. Now consider that much of this cash would go to public-school systems that don't even need the money for its earmarked purposes.

The Milwaukee Public School system, for example, would receive $88.6 million over two years for new construction ... Full Story »

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by Dale Penn - Feb. 7, 2009

The problem with this story is simple, it takes a shot across the bow of the stimulus bill with a sample story that makes one cringe. Then it implies that this sample is representative of the entirety of the $142 billion for education in the package. While this doesn't, in my mind, taint the stimulus bill, it does taint the WSJ editorial.

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