Word: rappaport
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Drawing on widespread dissatisfation with the declining standards of American schools, Republican senatorial hopeful James W. Rappaport has been pitching a plan to revamp the department of Education, by stripping of it its financial clout and shifting authority to the local level...
...while glitzier campaign issues have cast a long shadow in Rappaport's fight to unseat Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry, the reform plan has caught the eyes of education experts, who remain deeply divided on its prospects for success...
Like the high-profile Citizens for Limited Taxation petition to roll back Massachusetts taxes to their 1988 level, the Rappaport plan--calling on the Education Department to hand 60 percent of its budget directly to local school districts--has a lot of sparkle. But its critics worry that the plan is simply a repeat of irresponsible Reagan-era tactics that spurred serious fiscal problems in Massachusetts and other states...
...policy's rationale is that it sends the money directly where it is needed, bypassing unnecessary bureaucracy. After last fall's much-heralded education summit in Charlottesville, a number of politicians were quick to jump on the deregulatory bandwagon--including Rappaport, a 34-year old Concord business magnate who has never run for public office...
...latest proposed budget for the Education Department is $24.6 billion; the Rappaport plan would send $14.8 billion of this to local schools "with no strings and no bureaucrats attached," said Gary McMillan, a Rappaport spokesperson...