Check out this previously obscure but well documented connection of Obama and Ayers to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Obama had control of about $50 million dollars of grant money for education improvement and it went down a black hole of various leftist causes with little change in achievement scores. Obama is an expert in spending other people’s money but a disaster in directing/managing its proper use. He will be a disaster for the economy notwithstanding his love of socialism/Marxism.
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Thanks very much for the ping. Great thread. Thanks to all posters/researchers/educators/linkers.
Thanks....the more who see this and pass it around....the better.
Thanx for the ping - interesting read.
Look at Washington and the Republican Party to throw our money around like it was their own. They are as bad as the democtats with their "No Child Left Behind Act"ect
Over the time of this law, Congress increased federal funding of education, from $42.2 billion in 2001 to $54.4 billion in 2007. This equates to an increase which outpaced inflation by 5%. No Child Left Behind received a 40.4% increase from $17.4 billion in 2001 to $24.4 billion. The funding for reading quadrupled from $286 million in 2001 to $1.2 billion. A 2008 study from the Department of Ed, “Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report,” analyzes the performance of students in 12 states who were in grades one to three during the 2004-5 and 2005-6 school years and concluded that the Reading First Program, a major billion dollar a year NCLB effort, had proven "ineffective."