Parents and states should run schools.

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In the study, "A Lesson in Waste: Where Does All the Federal Education Money Go?," Neal McCluskey of the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C., argues that giving the Federal government control over education dollars has produced no discernable academic gains. Providing a detailed analysis of the explosive growth of Federal education intervention, McCluskey makes the case that education policy should be returned to the states."

"Despite the more than quadrupling of Federal spending on eduction and the near tripling of real per pupil expenditures between 1965 and 2003, most measures of student achievement have remained flat," McCluskey contends. "Math and reading scores have stagnated; graduation rates have flatlined; and researchers have shown numerous billion-dollar Federal programs to be failures."

Moreover, McCluskey questions the...