Comments about ‘Obama to seek $1.35 billion more for education’

More money from a government that is a trillion dollars in debt!!!!!!!! And guess what, you and I get to pay for it!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is so awesome!

Just what we need. More money that we don't have, put towards indoctrination that we don't want!

it took us over 200 years to realize we can just spend whatever we want with no consequences whatsoever. Praise the chosen one for realizing that since money grows on trees we need to be spending as fast as we can until there are no more trees. He truly is our savior.

This is nothing but a bribe to the teachers unions.

It would be bad, even if we had any money to spend, but we ARE BANKRUPT and our kids will be paying off his unsustainable debts for years anyway.

This man's socialist policies are destroying our country.

STOP THE SPENDING!

I wonder what the attached strings are?

Obama reminds me of my client whose spouse having been served divorce papers runs up the credit card knowing he will never have to pay the bill....

Thomas Jefferson once chided George Washington for running a deficit......

"ITS IMMORAL TO SADDLE OUR CHILDREN WITH DEBT",

IMPEACH OBAMA!

As a average college student I would think this would be great news.... then I remembered... I'm white.

A trillion dollars spent on Iraq and the Obama should be impeached for $1.35 billion for schools?

Sounds like you guys have it all figured out.

As a "non-unionized" educator, even I must agree with the union on this one; the value of education involves much more than the standardized test score. This spending of money we don't have is definitely taking this nation of ours down, down, down, in a handbasket.

Typical tax and spend-other-people's money liberal.

Trying to buy Democratic Votes on all American's backs....

I am embarrassed for anyone who voted for this clown...

Sure, just keep throwing money at everything. You are teaching Americans who lack smarts to spend more than they have. Very unwise policy and we will all suffer in the future.

Before this announcement, I only had suspicions that the Obama administration is trying to take over education but this confirms it.

RT3 may become a "permanent part of the administration's education arsenal." The administration wants more funding for RT3, and maybe an RT3 #2. Rather than let states determine whether or not they want their schools to participate in the program the administration wants to leap-frog them going directly to the districts. And all of this is only a side-bar to whatever happens with the reauthorization of NCLB this year.

The "stimulus" packages basically gave the executive branch authority to create far reaching federal policy without the approval of Congress.

I fear that our state is falling for these initial enticements to participate in federal programs and will never be able to get out of them once they are committed. State and local autonomy in education is going down the drain -- fast.

Utah Republicans remind me of the local Bishop who degrates people due to the choices their kids make, while his kids run a muck under his own nose.

Did you scream IMPEACH BUSH when he spent over a TRILLION DOLLARS on an Iraq war that was confounded on lies?

Obama just has it all backwards. Republicans are fine with running deficits as long as there's a good ole war going on somewhere, even one that we should never had gotten ourselves into. They were fine with Bush abandoning the American people and watching the economy crash. He turned a yearly surplus into huge deficits, while doing nothing to help Americans.

Meanwhile Obama tries to save jobs, you know the ones lost under Bush, and help the economy recover, and spend more on education, and you ask for his dismissal.

Guess that shows what really matters to Republicans. Keep your eye obscurred from all that really moves and you're happy.

... He knows that the more educated a person is, the more likely they are to vote Democrat.

Would you rather have No Child Left Behind? The Republicans are not the party of the middle class.

"The Education Department is expected to announce its first of two rounds of awards in April – with Obama saying that not all who enter will get a grant. ... The president said that extending the program would allow more states to win grants."

So that means there will be some that "Fail To Win", I thought we are not supposed to have anybody "Fail", I sure hope he doesn't let them know they "Failed" using red ink.

We need to change the "No Student Left Behind" to "No State Left Behind" ... speaking of "No Student Left Behind", if a kid goes to school only because he/she is forced to, seeks no learning, "fails" his/her classes, but we cannot leave them behind, is that the same as having a dead dog on a dogsled race, only slows everybody down & the dead dog gets nothing out of it?

I wish they'd start charging parents for education. The free market does everything better. Free education is socialism.

Go ahead and evaluate a teachers performance by standardized tests scores.
But what about the parents responsibility?
Let's also charge parents for failing to educate their child at home. So many students never do their homework and read at home. Face it, many parents do their child's homeweork. Yet I am the one accountable? Funny!

To: From a Teacher...

What you need to do (if you teach secondary) is to grab all of the G/T or Honors classes you can. That way your test scores will be phenomenal and you will qualify for the big bucks (the education version anyway) when it comes to performance pay. I pity the poor teacher who has classes full of special needs students. The truth hurts...

You will NEVER win the parent or student accountability fight. Don't even try. That battle was over before it even started. Sad!

Our country is suffering a tsunami of debt. Perhaps now is not the time to spend an extra 1.35 billion on education. After all, educational funding is a state responsibility, not a federal responsibility.