How state budgets are breaking US schools

Title:: How state budgets are breaking US schools
Speaker:: Bill Gates
Description:: America's school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates says that state budgets are riddled with accounting tricks that disguise the true cost of health care and pensions and weighted with worsening deficits -- with the financing of education at the losing end.

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Video Language:: English
Team:: closed TED
Project:: TEDTalks
Duration:: 09:55

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