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Obama administration proposes rules for how school districts spend money meant for poor kids
The Washington Post ^ | August 31, 2016 | Emma Brown

Posted on 09/01/2016 8:12:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The Obama administration released draft rules Wednesday that would govern how school districts allocate billions of Title I dollars meant to educate poor children, one of Capitol Hill’s most hotly contested education issues since Congress passed a new federal education law late last year.

The debate has pitted the Education Department and its allies in the civil rights movement, who say they are trying to ensure that children in high-poverty schools get the federal aid they are due, against a wide range of opponents — including Republicans, teachers unions and district and state education leaders — who have accused the Obama administration of overreaching its authority and threatening to introduce chaos into district budgets and classrooms nationwide.

The new draft rules released Wednesday reflect changes that the Education Department incorporated after its initial proposal received a barrage of criticism, but it’s clear that the changes have not addressed all of those complaints.

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate education committee, said the administration’s proposed rule would unlawfully regulate nearly all of a district’s state and local spending and would upend collective bargaining agreements between teachers unions and districts...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communism; education; nea; obama; unions
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1 posted on 09/01/2016 8:12:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Dept. of Education has nothing to do with “education.”

Its about political control


2 posted on 09/01/2016 8:16:59 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can’t they just give each “poor kid” a “Democrat Party for Dummies” handbook and call that good?


3 posted on 09/01/2016 8:17:30 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He hasn’t finished trashing our schools yet?


4 posted on 09/01/2016 8:19:58 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Case in point: Hartford, Connecticut

Rife with corruption and misuse of fed and state funds. All by administrators hired through *affirmative action* programs.

Few have been convicted....they all skate ....while the kids at the end of this food chain go without. Such is life in a large urban city.

I’ve always thought mandatory audits of individual school budgets/expendatures.


5 posted on 09/01/2016 8:21:22 PM PDT by Daffynition (*If you're not gonna tell the truth, then why start talking?*~ Gene Wilder)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s kind of amazing to me, that Obama really thinks that his influence is going to last beyond his short time as a “president”.

The world moves on; and history does get written by SOME honest historians...

-JT


6 posted on 09/01/2016 8:22:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think the US has come to a point where no one really gives a massatooshits about what “The Obama Administration” is doing. imho I think people are looking to the future w/o him & his odious companions


7 posted on 09/01/2016 8:23:13 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (Karl Marx Treatment Center- -"We will tell you what to think")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That obama sure loves his rules.

And he gets off on making sure everyone else follows them, too.


8 posted on 09/01/2016 8:23:47 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

put it on ice.

Once Trump is President and the outflow of illegals no longer receiving welfare through their children begins, we can evaluate what we really need at that point.


9 posted on 09/01/2016 8:24:43 PM PDT by blueplum ((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The only shocking thing in this is that I had no idea ol’ Lamar was still kicking.


10 posted on 09/01/2016 8:25:00 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Old Sarge; aragorn; AZ .44 MAG; Art in Idaho; Candor7; easternsky; ...

PING!!!

Article and comments

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate education committee, said the administration’s proposed rule would unlawfully regulate nearly all of a district’s state and local spending

Thanks, 2ndDivisionVet


11 posted on 09/01/2016 8:36:58 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No authority for this will be found in the US Constitution.


12 posted on 09/01/2016 8:42:57 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t recall education in the constitution.


13 posted on 09/01/2016 8:44:48 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: PGR88
It's more about social control.

Control the thought PROCESSES of a child and you control a nation.

The kids came home in the seventies with "Daddy, don't smoke" and in 10 - 15 years, smoking plummeted

Heyyyy ... I think we GOT something here !

The internet is screwing up further control, so they legislate behavior (commonly referred to as student or school policy)

.Our kids are captive seven hours a day (by law), five days a week, ten months out of the year for twelve years.

What could you do with a child's mind if you could have that time with him or her ?

14 posted on 09/01/2016 8:49:17 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true ... and it pisses people off)
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To: Jamestown1630

Well I suppose he is banking on Hillary getting elected and then he will have her continue his work.

Just because he is gone doesn’t mean most of his policy will be gone as well that would take an act of Congress I think and you know how that is going they did all of his bidding both sides.


15 posted on 09/01/2016 8:50:27 PM PDT by funfan
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy is such an a hole.


16 posted on 09/01/2016 8:50:59 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah, Barry back to his old tricks as with the Chicago’s Annenburg Challenge swag.

For any who may have forgotten that was a huge pile of other people’s money intended to help enhance education in the Chicago area. Bill Ayers, that guy who just happened to live of Barry Boy’s street, hand picked Obama to help run it.

They then proceeded to piss off over a hundred million and, because they were “progressive” and funded all sorts of crap besides the basics, somehow managed to achieve nothing much for it all. Bupkis.

Now, pissing off so much charity money and failing would hurt some folks prospects but with the DNC it is apparently resume material!

See Barry Spend

Oh, a liberal little lawyer went galumphing down the street,
And as his luck would have it he just happened there to meet,
His neighbor with millions and a heavy need to spend,
But they spent the millions badly and Chicago got the shaft.


17 posted on 09/01/2016 9:08:37 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: DoughtyOne

“This guy is such an a hole.”

I’ve never seen anything like him; destruction for destruction’s sake.

As for me, I’m done focusing on his proposals, I’m looking past him to the future. We’d all be better served if he worked on getting his transition to private life in oder.

This man should never hold public office again, at any level, based on his low character and abysmal performance while in office.


18 posted on 09/01/2016 9:10:22 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: magna carta

Actually, yes. But this is the final NAIL in the coffin.

EVERY RATIONAL ADULT WOULD REMOVE THEIR CHILDREN FROM THE PUBLIC INDOCTRINATION SYSTEM WHICH DESTROYS MORAL FORMATION AND REASON AND LOGIC IN CHILDREN.

HOMESCHOOL-—get a group of like-minded parents together and tutor your children like EVERYONE DID until that ‘mandatory’ Prussian system to destroy children’s minds (get them removed from their true teachers/the family) to create non-thinking, mass-indoctrinated cogs in the wheel.

Critical Thinking ONLY comes from Classical Christian Education—from KNOWING REAL HISTORY and having HUMAN INTERACTION with REAL ROLE MODELS (loving mother/father/siblings).

The children get only irrational Darwinism/Marxist garbage taught as “True” while they demean the ONLY Worldview which created the Age of Reason and Modern Science (Free Will—thinking OUTSIDE the State allowed BOX).....The skools only embed irrational ideology to create the proper emotions into children—so they KNOW Satanism is Good and Christianity is Evil. (That will FEEL “natural” to them, as will sodomy and vice).

Without Virtue, there is no Freedom possible (Socrates/The Founders). Virtue is habituated and learned in the loving FAMILY UNIT and NOT in artificial institutions which dehumanize the children and destroy individualism for “socialism/collectivism” so thinking outside the box will be IMPOSSIBLE.


19 posted on 09/01/2016 9:10:34 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Bshaw

I agree with that.

What I want to see in Trump’s first days in office, is his striking down of most of what Obama has done while in office.

Just neuter the guy! He didn’t do squat for us. He was trying to destroy us.

His name should be erased from the record books by rights. Instead, he needs to be pegged for exactly who he was as president so we never repeat this disaster again.


20 posted on 09/01/2016 9:29:33 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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