January 25, 2009

Stimulus: School money will be hard to cut later

Stimulus: School money will be hard to cut later - Yahoo! News

Democrats want to use the big spending package designed to jump-start the staggering economy to send billions to long-term programs to help poor and disabled school children.

President Barack Obama's recovery plan amounts to the biggest increase ever in federal money for schools. Many Republicans say it is not a short-term boost but an immense expansion that will be impossible to roll back.