Who In Congress Voted Against Safe Routes To School?
29 members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted against a program to help America’s kids exercise and get to school safely. That’s tacky.
29 members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee voted against a program to help America’s kids exercise and get to school safely. That’s tacky.
Sensible new legislation would not create any big government system of nationally uniform preschool education. Rather, it would simply establish support for state governments in their efforts to provide year-round school that’s universally available, but not mandatory, for three, four and five year-olds.
Children who are corporally punished have, on average, a lower IQ than children who are not corporally punished. Spare the rod, spare the child.
Congressman Israel’s bill ranges from the outrageously implausible to the mundane. What’s next? A bill to establish grants to train school nurses in how to deal with hostile invasions from the planet Mars, and skinned knees?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could get the planning grants of the School Building Enhancement Act put together with the infrastructure investment grants of the Green Schools Act, combined with the resources of the Democratic leadership’s economic stimulus package?
Read the Green Schools Act, introduced by Mark Kirk and co-sponsored by Chris Carney. It’s a good bill in its vision, if perhaps too small in its scope.
This legislation does exactly what Republicans say they want to do. It makes public schools more efficient. In fact, the bill makes such plain sense that 27 Republican members of the House of Representatives crossed the aisle yesterday to vote in favor of it. Thanks to them, the bill passed, and will become law if passed by the Senate.