[codder too]

Tax dollars remain tax dollars no matter how they are 'laundered'. The no-strings-attached promise regarding curriculum and assessment,has not existed since RACE-TO-THE-TOP came into being. The concern is the loss of oversight and local control by ELECTED school Boards. Taxation WITH representation is a foundational Constitutional concept which MUST be preserved.

Choice and Charters are creating a REGIONAL system. Control moves closer and closer to full FEDERAL Top-Down control. A SOVIET system, if you will.

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND was a carefully chosen descriptor of the system. Race to The TOP speaks for itself, doesn't it? Any child being educated outside of the system in Private or Parochial or Home Sghool situation WILL be brought IN. Remember "NO" child will be left behind.

[Eva]

Elected school boards sit on the same side of the negotiating table as the union teachers. End the union hold on the public school system and the problem would disappear. Race to the Top has no power to change settled law.

The left keeps talking about “settled law” in regard to abortion, but when it comes to the union stranglehold on education, the left ignores the concept. The race to the top also advocated ending the pay for advanced degrees and teacher tenure, but I don’t see you defending those concepts.