Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Obama's Race to the Toilet

Obama’s ‘Race To The Top’ Slows To A Crawl


Barack Obama’s $4 billion education gamble that he has dubbed “Race to the Top” isn’t turning out the way he hoped, rewarding just two states so far, producing many plans but implementing no new reforms and raising political suspicions the administration is playing with a marked deck.
The idea behind Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s brainchild is to wage a high-stakes lottery competition that will reward states who can come up with innovative reforms to boost student achievement with huge payoffs, courtesy of the beleaguered U.S. taxpayers.

www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37401&page=1&viewID=1450517