Jammer this is the only stat that gets brought up... and you seriously think that it's fiscal waste and not the overwhelming reality that OUR STATE IS A CONTINENT?! 

You will go buy t-shirts that say "if we cut alaska in half texas would be the third largest state" but fail to realize how that impacts the cost of education? 

There is waste in any bureaucracy, for sure. But just because an engine leaks a little oil, do you rip the parts out and make 3 different cars? No. Reasonable people don't. We don't have a reasonable President and we don't have a reasonable Sec'y of Ed. 

They literally don't understand what will happen. I remember protesting the looming Iraq war in 2002 saying "it will destabilize the region and lead to civil war" and I got told that I was parroting my "liberal professors" and if I didn't like this country "get out." Well shucks, look what happened? 

This is bad, bad, bad policy pushed forward by bumper sticker talking points, and not thought out.