Nation : Bush’s Education Effort ‘Tepid’
President Bush is failing to back up his rhetoric about educational excellence with federal money, and the Administration’s proposed 2% spending increase for schools is “meager” and “tepid,” House Speaker Thomas S. Foley said today.
“While I commend the President for his desire to be known as ‘the education President,’ I question whether he can achieve that goal by proposing a meager 2% increase in the federal spending on education,” Foley told the nation’s governors.
“The simple fact is we don’t have a 2% education problem in this country,” he said. “The education gap is much more daunting.”
Foley spoke to the bipartisan National Governors’ Assn. as it concluded its annual winter meeting.
He said Bush’s proposed education spending amounted to “tepid incrementalism.”
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