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Senators' logic for fighting cuts to Race to Top flawed
- 07-06-2010
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
There is some confused reasoning in a letter that 13 U.S. senators wrote to oppose proposed cuts to three of President Obama’s education programs. The letter was written by a group of senators, led by Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) about legislation approved in the House that includes $10 billion to help save the jobs of thousands of teachers and other state employees threatened with layoffs. The senators -- 12 Democrats and an Independent -- say that they support the principle of keeping teachers in classrooms, but they object to the way the bill’s sponsor, Rep. David Obey (D-Wisconsin) proposes to pay for some of it: by cutting $800 billion from Obama’s programs. (more...)
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