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EdTech Funding Cut from Proposed FY06 budget

Posted by Zonk on from the who-needs-mice? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Bush's proposed FY06 budget eliminates a $500M Enhancing Education Through Technology program that is a major component of many schools' tech budgets. Rural school districts that serve underprivileged populations are going to be especially hard-hit, since they rely so heavily on technology to use educational resources that would otherwise be unavailable."

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  1. Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait



    I, for one, don't think every 5th grader in my state needs an iBook

  2. Doesn't go far enough! by eglamkowski · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The federal government should not be spending a single penny on education.

    Didn't you lefties learn ANYTHING from the Kerry loss? So many were beginning to understand the critical importance of states' rights and the need to genuinely limit the power of the feds.

    And now this?

    We need LESS federal spending on, oh, EVERYTHING. Not more! The less spending done by the federal government, the less it matters who is in office in DC. If the federal budget was just a few billion, Bush could be made president for life and you'd barely notice any difference in anything.

    And BTW, the budget may have beed proposed by Bush, but it still has to be introduced to congress by representatives and voted on and passed by congress.

    Really the budget is much more the fault of congress than the president. They don't even have to look at his proposed budget and could create one of their own to vote on and pass if they wanted to.

    Blame Congress first and most of all if you don't like what's in the budget.

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    Government IS the problem.