Missouri Education Watchdog: Obamacare and Education Reform Operate Under the Same Basic Principle: The Politics of Dependency

Missouri Education Watchdog: Obamacare and Education Reform Operate Under the Same Basic Principle: The Politics of Dependency:

Obamacare and Education Reform Operate Under the Same Basic Principle: The Politics of Dependency

by stlgretchen

How many politicians will send their children to  public school to learn under Common Core/RTTT mandates?

Education reform has much in common with Obamacare:  Absurdities.

• Education reform: Governors and state boards of education signed onto Race to the Top and Common Core standards even before they knew what was contained in the mandate and before the standards had been written. 
• Obamacare: Nancy Pelosi's statement of having to "sign the bill before we know what's in it" should come to mind as malfeasance with taxpayer money.

• Education reform: The states were promised some funding to implement RTTT/Common Core standards, but none of the awards would fully fund the several millions it would cost to implement