On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 10:22:16PM -0600, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > At 10:34 PM 3/9/03 -0500, Erik Reuter wrote: > >Do you read the messages in a thread before you reply to them? > > Yes.
Maybe you should read them again?
If you are referring to your suggestions for cutting other Federal programs and using that money for education, I dismissed that as unrealistic because (1) the whole system would have to change to allow Federal funding of the basics rather than just add-on programs, and (2) the same people who don't want their taxes raised also believe (correctly) that with Federal funding comes Federal control, and they are not happy with some of the programs currently mandated by the Federal government. In fact, some of those mandates--where the states are told that they must implement this or that program in the schools but no additional money is given them to do so--are at least part of the problem.
If you are referring to something else, then I guess I missed it. Could you please repeat it? Thanks!
-- Ronn! :)
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