Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools

America’s school systems are funded by the 50 states. In this fiery talk, Bill Gates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

Full Video: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_how_state_budgets_are_breaking_us_schools.html

(Many thanks to Martin Horejsi for passign this along.)