BDS Extends to Education

Democrats move to slash Reading First
House Democrats want to put their own stamp on federal education spending by increasing Title I and other programs they favor and slashing Reading First and other priorities set by President Bush.
In the $56 billion fiscal 2008 spending bill for the Department of Education unveiled by the Democrats, No Child Left Behind Act programs would receive a $2 billion increase, with the Title I program for disadvantaged students receiving $1.5 billion of that.
But the $1.03 billion Reading First program—which the Bush administration points to as one of its biggest accomplishments under the NCLB law—would take a cut of $630 million, or 61 percent. What’s more, the administration’s latest proposals for private school vouchers and new mathematics programs would not be funded at all.


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Continued symptoms of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)

It would decline to provide the $325 million the president proposed for private school choice to give such options to students who attend chronically low-performing public schools.
The bill also would not fund math programs for elementary schools and middle schools proposed by Mr. Bush. And it would give only level funding to the $31.9 million Striving Readers program for middle schoolers, far less than the Bush administration request of $100 million.
Rep. Obey said that the bill’s price tag has raised the prospect that President Bush would veto it. [ed.- You just have to love that reason in light of all the pork they tried to put into the military budget for Iraq] But the Appropriations Committee chairman, who also leads the Labor-HHS-Education subcommittee, had significant support from Republicans on the subcommittee to finance the programs Congress sees as a priority.

One other item of note is that all though the article they constantly refer to the President as Mr. Bush.
So who is Rep. Obey? Why he is the guy trying to become the pork barrel king of Washington.

Bloggers are particularly irked by reports that Obey will only add earmarks to House-Senate conference agreements that generally cannot be amended on the floor. In the past, earmarks have been included in the separate House and Senate versions of appropriations bills and the committee reports that accompany them.


So Mr Obey who is part of that party who was going to change that “culture of congress” is reporting for duty and has decided that rather then do something to get rid of the shading spending plans in congress he simply wants to hide them or make it so that you, the taxpayer, has no say in where your money goes. More here.

Apparently the main method the Dems wish to use to make sure "No Child is left Behind" is to also make sure no child succeeds.