Thursday, January 29, 2009

Education Bandaid, Not Reform

Interesting that not everyone agrees with Nancy Pelosi's statement today about the wonderful steps forward for women and children.

Stimulus Bill Misses the Mark for Education

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- While a broad base of national educators, leaders and policymakers have agreed that the nation's education system requires fundamental operational changes, the federal government is poised to subsidize the systems that have failed American students, allowed them to fall behind their international counterparts and left a yawning achievement gap that sees barely 50 percent of African-American males graduating from high school.......
http://potluckpolitics.blogspot.com/2009/01/stimulus-bill-misses-mark-for-education.html

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The stimulus bill misses the mark in many different areas. I'm still shaking my head over this pork laden thing.

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