Eliminate feds, give states money

After a quick Google search of about one minute, I discovered a pie chart that showed that funding for Washington state schools can be divided into 70 percent from state funds, 20 percent from local funds, and 10 percent from federal funds. Like I said, I only spent about one minute finding this information and I am confident some federal, state or district bureaucrat, might dispute this.

For now, let’s assume this is somewhat accurate.

On another quick search, I found that Gov. Inslee’s budget for state education is going to be or is proposed to be $325 million for rest of 2016, $982 million for 2017, $1.17 billion for 2018, and $1.22 billion for 2019.

The yearly budget for the Department of Education in Washington D.C. is $68 billion a year. The Department employs 4,400 bureaucrats.

Here is a solution to ours and many other states school funding problem, abolish the Federal Department of Education and send all the money back to the states. After all, the tax dollars originated in the states. Instead of the federal government funding only 10 percent, they could fund 100 percent. Take $68 billion and divide it by 50, ( We can figure out what to do with Puerto Rico later), and that amounts to $1.36 billion a piece.

Too simple or problem solved?

Martin Beyer

Everett