This morning on National Review Online, AEI's Rick Hess urges Republican lawmakers not to roll over when it comes to education spending in the stimulus bill. The package has lots of fat for states and districts but, explains Hess,
It says nothing about whether this money would be spent wisely or would simply prop up current budgets, which are padded by years of increasing revenues from inflated property-tax rolls--thereby minimizing the need to scrub school spending for waste or inefficiency.
Bush may have compromised on NCLB, but that doesn't mean Republicans should be compromising now...Read the rest here.
