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Report suggests that a study in democracy run amok. there are 82 programs to retrain teachers. the report says that there is no government wide strategy to minimize prague mennation, overlap or duplication of the programs. >> you have to ask the question what are we doing? number two, do they have measure to see if they're effective? no. the policy makers can't identify the effective practices to replicate? the gao can't tell if the $4 billion spent on teacher retraining is working. >> there are hundreds of millions of americans that grew up without a department of education. certainly an argu...

Department of education found out they were spending $4 billion on teacher retraining. is it working? that is virtually impossible to answer. there are so many different federal agencies involved in so many different teacher retraining programs that nobody quite has a handle on it take a look at this mind-numbing graphic that will give you an idea. there are 82 programs administered through ten different federal agencies for teacher retraining. in the department of education there are eight separate offices within that department alone administering 60 different teacher retraining program. som...

Of a reorganization effort, an effort to save money in d.c. schools. she saved millions of dollars by throwing and about 20 other public schools. it was an incredibly difficult stkeurbgs met with lots of protests but she made the tough call. critics say if only congress could do the same when it comes to teacher retraining. take a look at this chart right now, and this will -- will make your head spin. there are as you mentioned, 82 programs add minstered through ten separate federal agencies. in the department of education itself, there are eight different offices, devoted to 60 different pro...

Made that they are better educated than when that department was created. >> reporter: he suggests that all of the money devoted to teacher retraining would be better used if it was funneled directly to the states and even directly to individual school boards. bill: what about the department of education, doug when it comes to the effort to consolidate the programs? are they willing? have they proposed that? >> reporter: in their pending reauthorize they have made some proposals. they want to consolidate 38 into 11 retraining teacher program. this is congress' responsibility. the fundamental p...

Report suggests that a study in democracy run amok. there are 82 programs to retrain teachers. the report says that there is no government wide strategy to minimize prague mennation, overlap or duplication of the programs. >> you have to ask the question what are we doing? number two, do they have measure to see if they're effective? no. the policy makers can't identify the effective practices to replicate? the gao can't tell if the $4 billion spent on teacher retraining is working. >> there are hundreds of millions of americans that grew up without a department of education. certainly an argu...