In his speech in Detroit, President Bush said, “To keep America competitive, we’ve got to make sure that the education system works.”
FACT: In his 2006 budget, President Bush is eliminating “$1.1 billion in state vocational education grants, $496 million for educational technology grants, and $437 million for safe and drug free schools.”
Update: All of the rapid response blog posts have been updated now that the transcript of the President’s Detroit speech has been released.
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