https://www.cato.org/blog/new-k-12-productivity-chart It's hard to believe that education is getting less funding. There seems to be a perception that spending more money on education will result in smarter students or higher test scores but that doesn't seem to be the case. There is more money spent on educating children through K-12. Also Richard Nixon was president before Ronald Reagan so Nixon wouldn't be able to double down on his successors policies. Unless you mean Governor Ronald Reagan who started his leadership in 1967 with Nixon's presidency starting in 1969