Ed. Dept. Opposes Cutting Race to Top to Fund Edujobs
The U.S. Department of Education is pushing back against a congressional plan to trim key priorities of the Obama administration—including the Race to the Top Fund and money for pay-for-performance programs and charter schools—to help cover the cost of a $10 billion effort to save education jobs.
The proposal, unveiled late Tuesday by Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, would skim $500 million from Race to the Top , the administration’s $4.35 billion signature education reform initiative, which was created last year under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Another $200 million would come out of the Teacher Incentive Fund , which helps districts create pay-for-performance programs. That fund received $400 million in fiscal 2010, on top of $200 million from the federal economic-stimulus program. And the measure would cut $100 million appropriated last year to help...
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