Obamaschool is underway with minimal evaluation and debate in Congress. Why is this very large socialized education project just happening without the Congressional consideration health care required? President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan show up in a classroom for a presser and simply announce what is being done. What they are calling “Race to the Top” is the expenditure of $4.35 billion in grants to the states that empowers the Secretary of Education to very broadly judge what the states do with the money.
They have now announced another $1.35 billion in the next EdFed budget. Until this big reach from Washington into running our local schools is at least debated and passed in Congress, the money gush should wait. Do we need a Constitutional amendment to authorized federal management of local learning? Until we have settled these important questions about taxpayers costs and states rights, the cat in this post is speaking truth to power.
You can read for yourself what has actually been authorized relative to the Race to the Top project the Department of Education part of the Recovery Act on this webpage at the Library of Congress. SEC. 14006. STATE INCENTIVE GRANTS is apparently what authorizes the gush of money to states in grants that let the EdFed limit and judge what schools do with the money they receive.
