WisPolitics Budget Blog covers the letter that Senator Mark Miller (D) sent to Education Secretary Arne Duncan expressing concern about strings attached the Race to the Top education grants coming with too many strings:
This was the criticism many Republican governors were making with regards to the stimulus bill several months ago. Arguments which Democrats summarily dismissed at the time. I wonder what's changed?
This case seems like little more than Miller pandering to a powerful constituency that opposes some of the reforms attached to the Race to the Top grants.
As much as I and other public officials want to improve public school performance, we can only do so if we can pay for it. Wisconsin will be gambling with our educational future if we make these financial and policy commitments and then fail to keep them," Miller writes. "Because so much is unknown about how Race to the Top grant dollars will be allocated and for how long, we feel like a gambler trying to draw to an inside straight.Miller's concern is that the Wisconsin will enact new programs in order to get one-time federal government money and then be stuck with the bill for on-going expenses. Seems to me I've heard this argument somewhere before.
This was the criticism many Republican governors were making with regards to the stimulus bill several months ago. Arguments which Democrats summarily dismissed at the time. I wonder what's changed?
This case seems like little more than Miller pandering to a powerful constituency that opposes some of the reforms attached to the Race to the Top grants.
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Gee.
ObamaCare will screw the States to the wall on Medicaid costs.
Doyle hasn't noticed?
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