Obama's plan to reward schools for innovation sparks congressional debate

[tonysam]

You mean there are actually people who CARE about education and dare criticize Obama's neoliberal nonsense?

President Obama aims to reinvent the Education Department as a venture capitalist for school reform, investing more in schools with innovative ideas. The Title I program, which supports Adelphi and thousands of other schools in low-income areas based on formulas of need, is not facing extinction. But Obama would freeze the core of that program even as he sends billions of dollars to states that harmonize their policies with his.

The proposal splits congressional Democrats. They are staunch protectors of education funding for their states and districts, but many worry about promoting innovation at the expense of equity. Obama's $4 billion Race to the Top, a prime example of what he wants to expand, in March awarded large payouts to Delaware and Tennessee but left 39 applicants empty-handed.
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Most states will not receive a dime this year from the school reform fund. Some senior lawmakers say there's a limit to the value of competition at a time of enormous fiscal strain on schools.

The Education Department is NOT for helping schools but is a "venture capitalist" entity?

It's time to find somebody to run in the 2012 Democratic primaries against Obama. We don't need this GOP shit in the Democratic Party.

Washington Post

[Hannah Bell]

1. This ed dept is about pitting states against each other for funding to force the legal changes they

desire.

[Catshrink]

2. Dr. Jill Biden is an educator

I wonder if an appeal to her would help.