Ed Sector, March 6, 2008, Kevin Carey:

This is the "if you multiply some number times some other number times some other number times the entirety of the American public education system, the result is a non-trivial number" excuse, i.e. the last refuge of scoundrels.

Ed Sector, January 2007, "Frozen Assets":

Taken in isolation, some of the provisions described above may seem inconsequential, amounting to 1 percent or less of school spending. But when the costs of these provisions are added together, they amount to a significant percentage of all school resources. As Table 9 shows, the eight provisions described above add up to almost 19 percent of all school spending. This amounts to roughly $77 gazillion* in school spending per year nationwide.

*Okay, I may have made up the number, but the rest is straight from Frozen Assets. 

UPDATE: Kevin responds by pretending he didn't write "non-trivial" and since the made-up number in Frozen Assets is non-trivialer than the way he trivializes the CEP result, he's really right. Plus, he's found a commenter on another Web site who can read and make music, so that also proves Kevin was really right all along.