Which means that spending on education is no more sacrosanct than spending on, say, whiskey.
So is spending on education crucial for workforce competitiveness in the Information Age.
It now includes a demand for spending on education to be raised to 6% of GDP.
But he said he recognised the pressures caused by protecting spending on education and social services.
First, choice reduces spending on education the improvement in performance is achieved at lower cost.
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Your arguments could just as easily be applied to spending on education and defence, too.
One externality that has been tested empirically did little to enhance the case for public spending on education.
Ballooning prison budgets have squeezed out spending on education and other social programmes in states throughout the country.
Government spending on education has failed to match the pace of economic growth.
Presumably this return is to be found in the "externalities" some economists and educators claim results from spending on education.
The regime has nearly doubled per capita spending on education - not only for kids but for adults as well.
But Mr Sargeant said at the time that he recognised the pressures caused by protecting spending on education and social services.
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GDP, government spending on education hardly changed at all in the 1990s.
Spending on education is important for the future of our economy.
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The country has a bloated expenditure on the military and small spending on education so that it lags even behind impoverished neighbours like Bangladesh in many spheres.
Furthermore, it will be many years before anyone knows whether the government's extra spending on education bears any fruit in improving work opportunities for the poorest children.
Add increased spending on education, energy and other initiatives, and federal expenditures, excluding defence, would rise to a new high of 18% of GDP in the coming decade.
The White House will stress what Mr. Plouffe called "smart" deficit reduction, meaning a plan that avoids cuts to administration priorities such as spending on education and infrastructure.
Of the rest, 80% is earmarked for spending on education, health, rural development, infrastructure, environmental and water management, and 5% is to be spent in the oil-producing region.
Mr Obama offers a very different vision: more spending on education and training, an expensive expansion of health care to (almost) all Americans and better benefits for the unemployed.
If, for example, someone has signed a petition calling for a bond issue to finance local schools, a candidate might tell him that his opponent will cut spending on education.
He said that spending on education as a proportion of the gross domestic product (GDP) was "lower now than it was for the majority of the period of the last government".
At the same time they plan to double spending on education and research over the next five years, raise family allowances and chop the tax bill of those with low incomes.
Some 40% of sales are generated outside of the U.S. The company is well positioned to capitalize on emerging market growth, increasing consumer spending on education and the shift to digital media.
However, commentators said the promises on education were vague, with the most specific proposal being for multinational lending bodies to allow poor countries to replace some debt repayments with spending on education.
He will tell the conference that spending on education and health has seen significant benefits for the services and that there are now clear signs that the government's investment is finally starting to show through.
He plans to reverse a rise in violent crime with a thorough overhaul of the police, almost to double spending on education and to cut the proportion of Dominicans in poverty from 34% to around 20%.
Second, Mr Fox needs the tax rises to pay for his other plans, such as increased spending on education, social services and infrastructure, as well as to revamp Pemex and reduce the government's dependence on ever-uncertain oil income.
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