StickWithANose

As I’ve noted previously, the on-going disaster that is the Obama administration’s approach to education reform is little more than a policy push designed to create yet another conduit for the looting of public treasuries. Today’s example comes from the great state of Florida. Take a peek at how the state plans to spend its share of the $1 billion dollars that it requested as part of Arne’s ‘Race to the Top’. [h/t SchoolsMatter]

If the state gets the whole $1.1 billion it asked for (which some say is a very long shot), the Department of Education would spend half and school districts that agreed to take part would share half.

While there are as yet no plans on how individual districts would use their share of the money, the state has suggested to the dollar how it will spend its $570,811,435.

And “contractual” expenditures, including busloads of consultants, would account for $462,815,452.

I’m still looking, but here are a few examples.

To help districts set up new systems to evaluate teachers and administrators — 60 consultants at a cost of $15 million.

To help districts figure out how to compensate teachers and administrators for getting better performance from students, the state plans to contract with 63 financial consultants at a cost of $45 million.

And there is $10.7 million for consultants to develop “lesson study tool kits” so teachers can study “effective lesson development.”