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| Looky here Obama, don't mess with Texas. If we want to defund education, don't you go meddlin'. |
From the Houston Chronicle Online
President Obama's budget includes a provision aimed at Texas Gov. Rick Perry and state Education Commissioner Robert Scott.
The budget would set aside $900 million to award school districts who win a new Race to the Top competition and expand it to include early childhood and higher education competitive grant programs. The Early Childhood Learning Program would be created using $350 million and $150 million for a post-secondary program.
Perry refused to apply in 2010 for Race to the Top funding, much to the chagrin of many school districts. Race to the Top aims to raise education standards and align them across states. However, Perry and Scott maintain that would be hazardous to the education system already in place in Texas and the initiatives currently under way. If Perry opts Texas out of competitive grants again, the state has few options for federal funding.
The new Race to the Top intiative would allow individual school districts to participate in the competition, instead of states. Perry won't be able to opt Texas out of the competition. This might be good news to Houston, who wanted to participate last year, but couldn't.
You can read more at :
http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/02/obama_proposes_68_billion_in_e.html
They may not have much of a football team... but those Harvard guys aren't stupid. I keep trying to get that point across to Republicans but the lemmings are still headed toward the cliff!!!
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