The Choice Channel

“The sweeteners added to the $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan last week included a few crumbs for education: a two-year extension of the $250 income-tax credit teachers can receive for buying classroom supplies, $400 million in tax credits for bondholders on school renovation and repair projects and renewal of a program that helps rural schools that once depended on timber taxes. That’s in keeping, unfortunately, with the attention education has been getting at the federal level.” (10/08/08)