In Massachusetts the state where my competitor comes from, has been Governor, look at the gap between public education expenditures.

The national average for per capita education expenditure is $645 a year, while Arkansas spends $447.

The Jackson budget will double education expenditures by 1993.

While the Government is cutting spending on most programs, it has pledged to raise education expenditures by 15.4 percent to the equivalent of $10 billion.

Governor Rendell's proposed 2009-2010 budget suggests a 1.5% increase in education expenditures.

He did not find the unequal education expenditures to be so irrational as to be offensive to equal rights.

Despite this expansion, the low levels of education expenditure mean that many schools, especially in rural areas, are little more than shells.

Analysts estimated that real education expenditures in 1985 were less than 40% of the total recorded in 1980.

In the late 1990's, the state's education expenditures rose considerably, by as much as 32 percent in a matter of four years.

Indeed, our national per capita education expenditures have almost tripled (as measured in constant dollars) since 1960.