School budget cuts, Joel Klein,

Note: Joel Klein thinks that RTTT is so important that school funds for low income schools should be cut to preserve money for the RTTT competition.

Joel I. Klein, the chancellor of the New York City school system, which is competing for Race to the Top money, said Congress should save the $800 million elsewhere, even if it meant cutting federal aid for schools with high-poverty students. “Here’s a chance with Race to the Top to really change the game,” he said. “Why would you take the money out of that?”

Mr. Obey, however, said the cut approved by the House would leave $3.2 billion for the favored programs. “To suggest we are being unduly harsh is a joke,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/us/politics/03cong.html?_r=1&hpw

Remember, Joel Klein was considered for Secretary of Education