Chait on Race to the Top cuts
As an update to this morning’s blog post about Rep. David Obey’s attempt to gut RTTT funding in the middle of the appropriations process, I’d like to simply quote Johnathon Chait’s pitch perfect response on his blog this morning. In a post titled “Do Not Obey,” he writes:
This is absurd. Obviously, the priority is to prevent education cuts. But Obey's plan does not prevent education cuts. It simply sloshes money from one pool of education funding into another, with the net effect being to hamper reform efforts.
There's a perfect symmetry here. The right is using the pretext of education reform to oppose sensible fiscal policy, and the left is using the pretext of sensible fiscal policy to oppose education reform. There's no reason why we can't continue to encourage education reform and also prevent mindless education cutbacks in the meantime.
Yup. Click here to write your Member of Congress and urge them to oppose the anti-reform Obey amendment.
