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50 Years of ERIC
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Educational Finance1
Expenditure per Student1
Federal Aid1
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Policy Analysis1
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Cato Institute1
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McCluskey, Neal1
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A Lesson in Waste: Where Does All the Federal Education Money Go? Policy Analysis. No. 518
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McCluskey, Neal – Cato Institute, 2004
Since the 1965 passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which concentrated unprecedented authority over American education in the hands of the federal government, federal lawmakers have passed increasingly restrictive laws and drastically escalated education spending, which ballooned from around $25 billion in 1965 (adjusted for…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Policy Analysis, Federal Government, Educational Finance