Media: "Race" Money Won't Solve School Budgets/ Prevent Mass Layoffs
In the middle of a critical look at merit pay, Mother Jones' Jessica Calefati makes the following understandable but inaccurate connection between Race to the Top funding and states trying to maintain education funding and save jobs: "To get some of the money—which states need Thompson: Ignoring Poverty At Our Own Peril
It's the current fashion among so-called reformers to say we shouldn't define poverty as the problem because society doesn't have answers for problems of that magnitude and because the War on Poverty was criticized as social engineering. So the Duncan Administration mandates the turnaround of 10% of low-performing schools, dictating untested strategies (and that is not 
