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 ...
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The writer of this article is too biased for words,. And too ignorant for my time.