Auditing education taxpayer $pending and outcomes
Open the Books took a look at where else the department’s money has been going in its fruitless pursuit of better outcomes.
Our auditors made the big picture clear recently, as auditors traced every agency’s headcount and spending changes over the decades (READ MORE: MAPPING GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT)
The department’s headcount has actually decreased slightly since 2000, by about 13.9% (4,930 vs. 4,245). But by 2024 annual spending was 749% of what they’d been at the turn of the Millenium! (Open the Books, FOX News)
What follows is just a brief laundry list of wasteful spending examples that can help explain the explosive growth.
These grants from recent years include some of the usual suspects like DEI and gender politics…plus millions headed to Chinese firms!
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