Peculiar President's Precedence or Mars > Education?

For the first time(for me anyway) and probably not the last...WTF Obama?

We can increase the NASA budget by $6 billion dollars over the next 5 years, but we're cutting education budgets?

I know NASA generates a lot of jobs for our country, but we're leaving our children in substandard facilities with underpaid and sometimes under trained teachers.

Isn't this the bigger of the 2 problems?

Maybe I'm just overly sensitive to our countries seeming lack of interest in giving our children a quality education.