Comments on: In Race for U.S. School Grants Is a Fear of Winning http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/in-race-for-u-s-school-grants-is-a-fear-of-winning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-race-for-u-s-school-grants-is-a-fear-of-winning Reporting and Analysis About What Matters in Chicago Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Education Guidebook http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/in-race-for-u-s-school-grants-is-a-fear-of-winning/#comment-2287 Education Guidebook Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:35:27 +0000 http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/?p=922#comment-2287 First of all, well written post! I've got a little question nagging me, I really like the layout of your website and tried to download the same theme on my WP website. However, there is some kind of weird coding error in the footer. Do you have any hints, which version are you using? Please PM me on Twitter @EducationGuide or via e-mail. First of all, well written post! I’ve got a little question nagging me, I really like the layout of your website and tried to download the same theme on my WP website. However, there is some kind of weird coding error in the footer. Do you have any hints, which version are you using? Please PM me on Twitter @EducationGuide or via e-mail.

]]> By: AJ http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/in-race-for-u-s-school-grants-is-a-fear-of-winning/#comment-2286 AJ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:15 +0000 http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/?p=922#comment-2286 I'm quite upset about the federal education reform issue regarding Obama's "Rise to the Top" program. Please speak up about it. The $500 million education reform will NOT even go towards the schools in need right now. All the money will go towards REFORM of the way we standardized test our kids, which will be the metric used to evaluate our teachers. Teachers will the get paid according to how their students progress compared to similar demographic students across the state. Remember the 500 million is only for the REFORM of this system. They'll spend it all doing research and testing the new system outside of Chicago city limits...which happens to be the only place as of now that they've tested it. Not the rural areas or central illinois metro areas. Why put $500mil in tax payers money towards something that hasn't been proven yet? We SHOULD be using this 500 million towards underfunded programs and scholarships for these underbudgeted schools and wait until the economy upturns to waste federal tax dollars on reforms that aren't even tested yet. I voted for Obama, but this is a gross misuse of federal money. We're wasting 500 million in an economic downturn. Please speak up & write to your local conressman or this money will be wasted and go towards eduation administrators pockets for all their pet projects. I’m quite upset about the federal education reform issue regarding Obama’s “Rise to the Top” program. Please speak up about it. The $500 million education reform will NOT even go towards the schools in need right now. All the money will go towards REFORM of the way we standardized test our kids, which will be the metric used to evaluate our teachers. Teachers will the get paid according to how their students progress compared to similar demographic students across the state. Remember the 500 million is only for the REFORM of this system. They’ll spend it all doing research and testing the new system outside of Chicago city limits…which happens to be the only place as of now that they’ve tested it. Not the rural areas or central illinois metro areas. Why put $500mil in tax payers money towards something that hasn’t been proven yet?

We SHOULD be using this 500 million towards underfunded programs and scholarships for these underbudgeted schools and wait until the economy upturns to waste federal tax dollars on reforms that aren’t even tested yet. I voted for Obama, but this is a gross misuse of federal money. We’re wasting 500 million in an economic downturn. Please speak up & write to your local conressman or this money will be wasted and go towards eduation administrators pockets for all their pet projects.

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