RttT Trough Feeders
From Rachel Monahan at the NY Daily Post:
Race to the Top funds would have meant 50G for one lucky education adviserOne high-priced consultant would have cashed in big-time if New York had succeeded in its doomed bid for millions in federal education funding.As part of the state's Race to the Top applications, officials proposed paying an unidentified consultant $50,000 for just 10 days of work on developing "world-class prekindergarten standards."[Continued]
Meier, Mullen, and Markets
Free Market Schooling
"This is a perilous moment. The individualist, greed-driven free-market ideology that both our major parties have pursued is at odds with what most Americans really care about....Working families and poor communities need and deserve help because the free market has failed to generate shared prosperity — its famous unseen hand has become a closed fist." Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, and I, agree. But the public seems just as suspicious—if not more so—about public institutions as the private ones. Thus the relative