Posted on 01/31/2010 9:20:24 AM PST by lqcincinnatus
January 29, 2010 5:52 PM
TEA SEEKS AG OPINION TO PREVENT VIEWING OF ITS UNFILED RACE TO THE TOP EDUCATION APPLICATION
Despite not competing, TEA calls application a "competitive bid document"
The Texas Education Agency has sought an Attorney General’s ruling to stop reporters from seeing its completed Race to the Top application, claiming the application is a “competitive bid document” and that the state’s competitive advantage that might be compromised if it was viewed by the public.
Forty states, plus the District of Columbia, applied for Race to the Top funding during the first round of the competitive $4.3 billion grant. Thirty-seven states that applied already have posted their full applications online. In a phone call with reporters earlier this week, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said all applications, once scrubbed of identifiers, would be posted online for review, in the hope that the Race to the Top process could give states a chance to learn from each other.
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By Kimberly Reeves
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It is unclear what is going on here. RTTT is an Obama program designed to allow the federal government to take control of curriculum nationwide (in exchange for a taxpayer funded bribe). Texas and Alaska refused to participate, and then the Obama goons decided that they would bypass the states and allow school districts to apply.
The TEA is also trying to (apparently) remove the founders and their beliefs from the text books. No real way to tell them no either.
I think it’s about time for another round of emails to my local reps.
TEA is so corrupt and desiring to be so far up the arse of the Feds its not funny...
Governor Perry and the top education official have publically rejected the RTTT program...
What choice do we have?
Medina ad:
“Who is going to think more about Latino families? Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison or me, who has a Latino family?” (Medina’s cultural heritage is German and Bohemian.)
She told a colleague last month in an e-mail. “Being married, however, to someone with a Mexican American heritage, I certainly embrace the culture.” But before she explained that, she told my colleage, who had asked her whether she considers herself Latina: “I’d not consider myself anything other than a wife and mother, a nurse and a patriot. I believe we too often get into race when it’s immaterial.”
No, Thanks, Mrs Medina.
She is also running Spanish ads. Hello Mrs.Medina! If they cannot speak English then they have no business voting IMO. When they learn English then let them vote. Assimilate. Learn English. Appreciate all America gives you.
So I’m sure she is blowing a lot of hot air just like Obama did just to get elected. Running those ads and saying what she has, tells me the border issue is just a try to get votes for herself.
No, thanks, I’ll stick with ‘ol RINO Perry. Texas has remained in better shape than almost any if not all of the states in the union under Perry's watch. As someone said, 'he's the devil we know'.
The motly crew running for governor is laughable; a MUSLIM, a trecherous RINO woman* (Hutchison) and a woman with questionable loyalties
*Feds Have Built Only 32 Miles of 700 Mile Double-Border Fence Originally Mandated by Congress “One reason DHS has been able to do this is an amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Texas) slipped into an omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed on December 18, 2007. Hutchison’s amendment put a loophole in the fence law that allowed the secretary of Homeland Security not to build the fence Congress had mandated the year before.”
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/43422
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