Kentucky Senator Rand Paul explained Department of Education spending to CBS anchor Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation.” Brennan asked Paul a question about the $2 billion in federal funding that Kentucky receives and if he could guarantee that money would still be available if the DoE shut down. This was a loaded question in an attempt to get a viral moment or newspaper headline. The more important question would be if education in Kentucky and the rest of the nation would improve or decline after the abolishment or weakening of the Department of Education.
Rand Paul went on to state the obvious, that the most pressing issues to students in this country are reading, writing, and arithmetic. Embarrassingly, there are students in the United States who graduate functionally illiterate. Out of 38 OECD countries, the United States ranks 27th in math and 12th in science, despite spending the 4th most amount of money per pupil.
Students are being shipped out of state to college totally unprepared for high-level course work. The federal student loan (which shouldn’t be given to an illiterate person) that they are on helps pay for drinking and legitimate baby creation and zero education. The college wins because the government will pay the loan bill that each student takes out. The student often loses because the Government has advanced methods to collect debt that a person owes them, including seizing money from bank accounts and intercepting tax returns.
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OECD: expenditure per student on education 2020 | Statista
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COE – Education Expenditures by Country
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