Posted on 02/25/2010 7:44:17 AM PST by jeffeiq
President Obama is throwing billions of dollars at a federal education program with an unproven record of success.
And for educational programs with a proven track record, such as Upward Bound, funded by the Department of Education’s TRIO program, he is cutting funding.
Upward Bound is a successful pre-college access program that was established in 1967 and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
The program recruits and provides educational, social and cultural services to potential first-generation college students.
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Why of course he did! He worked 5 years with terrorist Billy Ayers on a $50 million grant to study ways to indoctrinate youth into socialism via the PUBLIC schools. Homeschooling which produces students who score 2 years ahead of pubschoolers academically, just thwarts the socialist indoctrination part, so he has to douse that. Private schooling too (even though it’s fine for his daughters). No school vouchers, nothing to interfere with the free access highway to your childs’ minds.
The Ford, Annenberg, Rockefeller, Guggenheim foundations all abuse their tax free foundation status and their main function, based on investigations involving Tim Geithner’s father, is to rewrite US history and create textbooks which differ from the USA’s true past, and others to indoctrinate children.
Don’t let them!!
Well why not cut this...its only product are those that think for themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His past history shows that education is the last thing on his mind.
He wasted hundreds of millions of dollars from the Annenberg Foundation to radicalize rather than educate the poorest children in Chicago.
He cut the funds for DC children’s voucher programs while sending his kids to private school.
Why is anyone surprised he would do this?
It didn’t start with Obama. It’s been going on since John Dewey They’ve been cutting sucessful programs for decades now, such programs as reading, sensible arithmetic, penmanship, geography, home economics among them, and now cutting recess from the curriculum because it helps students focus better with exercise and fresh air! Homeschooling has been the bright alternative for years. In order to get our schools back to the high standards of well over a half a century ago, we must get the F out of Feducation, and put our schools back under local control. That way we get more Education for far less money! Our children, thus our nation, would benefit exponentially.
Incidentally, I would wager than few, if any, elected Congressmen or Senators send their children to government schools!
The DOE should be totally defunded!
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Of course they don't want successful students. That means they can read and write and think for themselves. Not so easily led or manipulated, like all the parents in the Lower Marion school district who went along with that totalitarian computer policy.
The program recruits and provides educational, social and cultural services.
Program than educate.
While I oppose the President’s plans for education, I’m all for cutting the Upward Bound program. I’d like to see it cut. Our local community college offers this program. It’s held on the college campus. To be eligible, the student’s family must earn below a certain income level, and neither parent must have a bachelor’s degree. But, all that doesn’t mean these kids need extra help getting into college.
If 95% of the students in this program go on to college, most likely those same students would’ve ended up in college even without the program. It always looked like a waste of money to me. They already can be counseled into college at their public schools where they’re already receiving a “free” education. Their family income levels probably earn them special tuition breaks, etc., anyway. (I’m waiting for my fellow Republicans to call me mean now.) LOL.
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