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Originally Posted by dtengineering
I will also suggest that $5 billion might not be such a crazy amount of money to spread across the United States.
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The 5B doesn't bother me so much as how US Dept of Ed says how to spend it.
It is such a long long way from the bureaucracy that administers the money to the classroom. When you read some of these documents you begin to wonder if the administrators in Washington and the classroom teachers even speak the same language and live on the same planet.
If you go read the Ed.gov documents you always see a lot about 'programs that target x and y'. So after a lot of work a school district design a plan, pursues a grant to do 'x' or 'y', then does the plan, then does a ton of assessment and send the answers back to get put in the wooden crate next to the other wooden crates you see in the movies. And then whatever they did probably doesn't get replicated anywhere else.
They are funding a search for solutions. We have a solution in hand but without funding. As a politician told me recently - "this is the biggest no-brainer in the history of earth".