No Dept. of Education? Now who is going to help all those special needs students and their parents who ...

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10. It doesn't work that way where I live

I asked the senior IT guy in our local school district (both because he is a friend and he sits in on the budget meetings) what would happen. He told be that for the general student population about 10% of the funding came from the feds. If that were lost, it would hurt, but they could absorb the cuts. For special needs almost 100% of the money is federal. Ohio would have to make up the difference or leave them hanging.

I too, hope that the money would move to another agency and be distributed to the states that way. I have my doubts about that though. Not that anything these clowns are doing makes sense, but it wouldn't make sense to cut the people but move the funding to another agency. The federal work force is about 4% of the federal budget, to get the spending cuts they want, they HAVE to cut the programs too, not just the payroll.