Inflation Adjusted United States Federal Spending Per Pupil & Achievement of 17 Year Olds, % Change since 1970

Andrew Coulson, via a kind reader's email:

The debate over No Child Left Behind re-authorization is upon us.

Except it isn't.

In his recent speech kicking off the discussion, education secretary Arne Duncan asked not whether the central federal education law should be reauthorized, he merely asked how.

Let's step back a bit, and examine why we should end federal intervention in (and spending on) our nation's schools... in one thousand words or less:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 2, 2009 5:49 AM
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