If Obama's Ideas About Education

are simply going to be World Bank/neoliberal hogwash, it's time for Democrats to find an opponent to run against him in 2012.

I am serious. I am so sick of his right-wing shit I can hardly take him anymore.

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.

Who the fuck needs Republicans with a "Democrat" like this?

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