Who spends more on Education in the US Republicans or Democrats?

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Who spends more on Education in the US Republicans or Democrats?

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M. Wright 4 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (12 minutes after post)

Whichever people identify themselves with a political party come tax paying time.

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Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (13 minutes after post)

Verum Causa wrote:
Whichever people identify themselves with a political party come tax paying time.

No the tax payer pays for education; but who spends the money more?

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Matt... 12 #
Baltimore, MD, US | 11 months, 1 week ago (52 minutes after post)

The Democratic Party tends to favor spending taxpayer money on the public school system, while the Republican Party tends to favor lower taxes and private schools as well as using some taxpayer money for voucher programs.

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Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (55 minutes after post)

Matt and Cookie; why do you hold your respective ideas on the matter?

SayItsSo 13 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (59 minutes after post)

Democrats doooooooooo

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An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour after post)

sayitsso wrote:
Democrats doooooooooo

Thanks for the reply sayitsso; why do you hold this idea?

tjwoods 26 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 2 minutes after post)

Political parties don’t spend moeny, the government does. The actual amount of money advocated and spent by individual legislators varies by person, and especially by region. There isn’t a clear answer to this.

However, there is a strong link between Democrats and teachers’ organizations, and the political interest groups for educators tend to endorse Democrats in national elections.

Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 7 minutes after post)

tjwoods wrote:
Political parties don’t spend moeny, the government does. The actual amount of money advocated and spent by individual legislators varies by person, and especially by region. There isn’t a clear answer to this. However, there is a strong link between Democrats and teachers’ organizations, and the political interest groups for educators tend to endorse Democrats in national elections.

Thanks for the input.

Its true that individual legislators approve and disapprove of spending at varying levels. However congress is often lead by a dominate party that is able to push or or deny spending as the party sees fit. Further more while individual legislators have the right to vote as they wish; they do come under party pressure to vote with the party. The commutative actions of the parties members can in a way be interpreted as the party wishing to push for or deny spending.

Does the strong link between Democrats and teachers’ organizations as well as political interest groups for educators come from the fact that Democrats give them more of the money these groups want?

Matt... 12 #
Baltimore, MD, US | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 hour, 11 minutes after post)

Da⌐11 wrote:
Matt and Cookie; why do you hold your respective ideas on the matter?

I support the public school system for a number of reasons. For one, it’s better for the lower and middle class who can’t afford to send their children to private school. Although it’s true if we were to get rid of public schools there would be a tax break, the tax reduction would not be enough to cover private schools, especially once you consider that the public school system is their biggest competitor. With that out of the way they would be able to increase tuition rates significantly.

Second, private schools aren’t so much schools as they are businesses. Like any business, to be successful they have to stick with the flow of the market and demand. There’s no guarantee that private schools will continue to teach appropriate content. For example, say there’s a private school in Kansas. They realize that since many people in the area are religious, if they exclusively teach Creation they can get more students and profits will go up. But what about the families that want their children to learn about science and Evolution? Maybe they can’t afford to send their child halfway across the country to a school that teaches it, or can’t move there. Of course if there’s a high enough demand a “science school” will set up shop in their area, but there needs to be a certain level of demand, and children’s education can’t just be put on hold until the right school comes to town.

Public school systems also help with standardization. The last thing we need is children in one private school being taught to use miles while the kids down the street are learning to use kilometers. Plus public schools are more protected from severe economic shifts.

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Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (22 hours, 41 minutes after post)

Matt; thanks for the insight. But I wasn’t so much asing why you suport the public school systems. But rather why you think “The Democratic Party tends to favor spending taxpayer money on the public school system”.

tjwoods 26 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (22 hours, 56 minutes after post)

Da-11, it sounds like you have a point you want to make. It sounds to me as though you are not looking for people’s input, but just trying to put a burden of proof on people who volunteer their understanding. If you have a viewpoint you would like to share, please go ahead.

Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (23 hours, 7 minutes after post)

Tjwoods; your correct I have I do have a “viewpoint”; but viewpoint is not the correct word. For some research I was doing I looked up federal education spending for the last two decades and found that my own preconceived notions on the subject was flawed. My objective with this post is to see if I was alone in my mistake or if it was a widely held mistake. That is why I posed this question, and would like to understand why people arrive at their answer. Things of this nature (human nature) fascinate me.

Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (23 hours, 10 minutes after post)

Before doing the research I assume the Democrats where more likely to spend money on education for the very reason you sighted in your post tjwoods. But the research shows otherwise.

President G.W. Bush’s education spending budget nearly doubled (about an 80% increase) that of President Clinton’s education spending budget.

President Clinton’s budget only increased about 18% over that of G.H. Bush’s education spending budget.

When the Democrats took control of congress in 2006 they cut education spending by about 32%?

Even G.H Bush increased the Department of Education budget by about 40% over the term of his presidency (4 years) while Clinton only increased the budget by about 20% over his terms (8 years).

Here are the yearly Department of Educations budgets for the last two decades.

Year - Department of ED budget (Thousands)

G.H. Bush takes office:

1989 - $22,819224
1990 - $25,345321
1991 - $28,164763
1992 - $32,169,741

Clinton takes office:

1993 - $32,462,458
1994 - $27,054,599
1995 - $32,293,918
1996 - $30,480,952
1997 - $33,527,573
1998 - $35,677,788
1999 - $38,313,686
2000 - $38,447,366

G.W. Bush takes office:

2001 - $42,061,403
2002 - $56,177,032
2003 - $63,256,811
2004 - $67,212,116
2005 - $71,478,441
2006 - $100,047,663

Democrats take congress:

2007 - $67,124,090
2008 - $68,574,592

here is the link to the department of Ed and their budgets

http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/budg…

M. Wright 4 #
An Unknown Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 7 hours after post)

But I’d think it depends on what you were using the information for. A simple spending comparison, without reading too much into the information, and it’s all right, but if you equate spending with quality, then that could be a problem. A qualitative comparison would probably be appropriate, if say - you’re deciding who you want to support. Rather than basing it on money spent alone.

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Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 11 months, 1 week ago (1 day, 7 hours after post)

The linked info is a simple spending comparison; which can be used in deciding who you wants to support. One aspect of any issue is not enough to support anyone.

The fact that many people lie about how much is spent is another good way to judge for support.

Stunna 3 #
An Unknown Location | 9 months, 2 weeks ago (1 month, 3 weeks after post)

Democrats as of late haven’t been spending much education wise. Bush really encouraged education spending actually.

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nirvana777666 4 #
An Undisclosed Location | 8 months, 4 weeks ago (2 months, 1 week after post)

I dont know the stats but I would guess its the Dems

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Da⌐11 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 8 months, 4 weeks ago (2 months, 1 week after post)

nirvana777666 wrote:
I dont know the stats but I would guess its the Dems

Not according to the education budgets over the last few decades. Education saw the highest present increase in funds under republican leadership.

But I agree that does go against the popular belief on the subject.

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