Texas Governor Doesn't Want Money For Education

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Who needs all that fancy book-learning, anyway?

HOUSTON - Texas won't compete for up to $700 million in federal stimulus money for education because the program "smacks of a federal takeover of our public schools," Republican Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday. The funding is from the U.S. Department of Education's "Race to the Top" program, a $5 billion competitive fund that will award grants to states to improve education quality and results. The program, created in the economic stimulus law, is part of Democratic President Barack Obama's efforts to overhaul the nation's schools.

Perry has been critical of the federal stimulus program and the federal bailout of the nation's financial institutions. He previously turned down $555 million in federal stimulus money for the state's unemployment fund because it would have required Texas to expand its unemployment benefits.

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Perry stood next to Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott and representatives of teachers' unions and said taking the money would force the state to adopt national education and testing standards and result in Texas losing its autonomy in educating children.


I don't remember anyone making that claim about No Child Left Behind, which the stimulus helps to fund.

UPDATE: Perry's a fucking hypocrite? You don't say.

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daveawayfromhome said…
Rick Perry is a card-carrying, ultra-"conservative", business-dick-sucking, bible-thumping asshat of the first order. If he's rejecting government money it's because he thinks that doing so will help destroy the public school system and so help the Republican cause towards school vouchers. This is the same man whose conservative-stacked state educational board is recommending more Bible in the state's History curricula and the use of the term "republic" instead of "democracy" ('cause "democracy" sounds too much like "Democrat", whereas "republic" does not). This fuckhead has been governor for ten years now, and if he wins again, I'm moving out of the state, wife or no wife.
12:56 AM
Pryme said…
Dave: there's more (see the update).
2:59 PM
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