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Scary: GOP’s 2012 education priorities
- 04-06-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
This would be comical if it weren’t so serious. At a time when public school district budgets are being slashed and there is a highly contentious national debate about how to reform failing schools, this is one of the three “major proposals” of the education proposals in the 2012 budget proposal released today by the Republican-led House Committee on the Budget: reviving a voucher program in Washington D.C. public schools. Yes, you read that right. The budget proposal, spearheaded by the committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and called “The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America’s Promise,” deals with education reform in a short section entitled, “Preparing the Workforce for a 21st Century Economy.” Here are the three education proposals labeled as “major:” (more...)
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