Cannibals
Last month, the Education Trust and the New Teacher Project wanted to see seniority reform in exchange for passage of the edujobs bill.
This month, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey wants to raid Race to the Top, the Teacher Incentive Fund, and part of the Department of Education discretionary budget related to charter schools in order to offset the costs of the edujobs bill.
Coincidence?
UPDATE: Washington Post reporter Nick Anderson, to his credit, adds this sentence to his story about the Obey amendment:
“Estimates have ranged from 100,000 to 300,000 education jobs in jeopardy, although those figures might be questionable.”
He also quotes Obey spokesman Ellis Brachman: “Mr. Obey has said, ‘When a ship is sinking, you don’t worry about redesigning a room, you worry about keeping it afloat.’”
Maybe the ship is sinking because it’s overloaded.
