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Politics : Socialized Education - Is there abetter way?
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From: greatplains_guy2/15/2015 1:07:21 PM
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Obama attacks schools bill
Updated 2:29 pm, Friday, February 13, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Friday attacked against the House of Representatives who want to limit the federal government's role in education.

In a new report, the White House said a House education bill would be a "huge step" to restore freedoms and "virtually eliminate" federal partisanship in awarding education money.

"After an economic crisis that hit school budgets and educators hard, we cannot just cut our way to better schools and more opportunity," the report states.

Last week, Republicans on the House Education Committee pushed through a bill that would leave it to states to decide how to improve failing schools and would replace several federal programs with a single, flexible local grant program. The legislation was considered an update to the bipartisan No Child Left Behind law signed in 2002 by President George W. Bush.

"It is disappointing the White House and powerful special interests are rallying against these commonsense reforms," said Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

In a conference call with journalists, a senior White House adviser stopped short of saying President Barack Hussein Obama would veto the bill. Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said the administration is hopeful the Senate will draft an acceptable bill that has leftwing support.

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