Education in the Budget Proposal

The budget is not just a budget, it’s also an outline for forward-looking policy in a broad variety of areas including education. CAP’s Associate Director for Education Policy, Melissa Lazarin, made a video explaining what the budget means for that area:

Basically, good things. In my view, one of the most under-commented-on aspects of Obama’s first two months in office is that the groundwork has been laid for the federal government to be playing a much larger role in education policy than has customarily been the case. Trends have been building in that direction, slowly, since the 1960s and the pace of change increased with the No Child Left Behind bill, but the stimulus and Obama’s proposals imply another big leap in that direction.