Smoke Filled Schoolroom

EdAction warns that the comprehensive list of intrusive pre-school programs we warned you about is still very much alive in this session:

Last week, Rep. Doug Meslow (R-White Bear Lake), House author of the Nanny State provisions, predicted, "Don't count early childhood out yet." In other words, Meslow expects to have a good shot at getting it passed, in spite of the fact that this $23 million package was not approved by a single House committee this session. How can this happen? Here's how, and we fear a betrayal is brewing.

The greatest concern is that the Governor, the Speaker of the House, and the Majority Leader of the Senate could make a closed door, backroom deal among themselves, and the conferees would be forced to deliver. You are now forewarned that a deal like this could be in the making. Such a deal would directly betray the citizens, and especially the parents of young children, in this state who have elected men and women to represent them. These leaders must be reminded that they represent the families of Minnesota, not powerful insiders who like to call the shots behind closed doors

To think much of anything about the educational/industrial complex is about education or children is at best naive.

Posted by Mitch at May 18, 2006 06:44 AM | TrackBack