GOP Budget Guts Education Spending To Benefit The One Percent
This week President Obama derided the draconian budget conceived by Rep. Paul Ryan and endorsed by the clear frontrunner in the Republican presidential primary, Mitt Romney, as “laughable,” a “radical vision,” and "nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism.”
But let's be clear. When it comes to how America advances the interests of school children and college students, Obama's assessment of the Ryan-Romney plan barely grazes the surface.
In fact, the budget that the GOP is preparing to put forth in the upcoming election is a scorched-earth plan for education -- from pre-K through college -- and the only "green shoots" left in the wake of its devastation will be quick cash for the moneyed class.
Clear-Cutting Early Childhood Education
The Ryan-Romney full-on assault on the nation's current generation of learners begins with the very youngest. Should this plan become the law of the land, as President Obama explained, "over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get an early education in the Head Start program." But that's just in 2014.
A recent analysis that appeared on the pages of Huffington Post just prior to the budget's passage in the
But let's be clear. When it comes to how America advances the interests of school children and college students, Obama's assessment of the Ryan-Romney plan barely grazes the surface.
In fact, the budget that the GOP is preparing to put forth in the upcoming election is a scorched-earth plan for education -- from pre-K through college -- and the only "green shoots" left in the wake of its devastation will be quick cash for the moneyed class.
Clear-Cutting Early Childhood Education
The Ryan-Romney full-on assault on the nation's current generation of learners begins with the very youngest. Should this plan become the law of the land, as President Obama explained, "over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get an early education in the Head Start program." But that's just in 2014.
A recent analysis that appeared on the pages of Huffington Post just prior to the budget's passage in the
