Once again, President Obama has a solution to some of the nation's ills: money.
President Barack Obama took aim Monday at the nation's school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and education districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter their worst performing schools.
Obama's move comes as many schools continue to struggle to get children to graduation, a profound problem in a rich, powerful nation. Only about 70 percent of entering high school freshmen go on to graduate. The problem affects blacks and Latinos at particularly high rates.
Obama described the crisis as one that hurts individual kids and the nation as a whole, shattering dreams and undermining an already hurting economy.
"There's got to be a sense of accountability," Obama said...
I agree, but the think the accountability would be on spending. There isn't a problem at which we can't throw money.
Let's get through this financial and employment crisis. Then we can start worrying about spending money on everything else. Otherwise our debt will continue to balloon.
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