# How state budgets are breaking US schools

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2011
- Speaker: Bill Gates
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_how_state_budgets_are_breaking_us_schools)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [How state budgets are breaking US schools](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/bill_gates_how_state_budgets_are_breaking_us_schools/f4b88e6575c5), 10 min (TED's player)