No. 126, December 30, 1996. At the national level, there is considerable debate about the proper role of the federal government in education and the need for a U.S. Department of Education . To determine and evaluate the effectiveness of the programs funded by the Department of Education, and how many of its dollars reach the district level, Heritage analysts developed The Heritage Foundation Education Finance Model. Local communities and Congress have a right to know what returns they are getting for their tax dollars. No. 1128, June 30, 1997.
Economic success is linked inextricably to education.
As members of Congress consider several legislative proposals containing school choice provisions, they have they opportunity to give tens of thousands of disadvantaged children across the United States the opportunity to have a much brighter future. Attention from across the political and social spectrum is focusing on the astonishing success of inner-city Catholic schools in working with the very children public schools abandoned as uneducable. For other education-related Heritage papers, see The Heritage Foundation's Education Key Issues Page .