Comments on: Feds’ Magical Money Tree Blowing Dollars Away from Education Reform

By: Ed is Watching » Don’t Make Parents Choose Between Finding a Better School & Obeying the Law

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:50:18 +0000

[...] me? Did they really spend that much to investigate where the mom really lived? Maybe they have a magical money tree growing there, [...]

By: Ed is Watching » D.C.’s Magical Money Taking Slow Road to Colorado School Districts

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:45:38 +0000

[...] someone blew the pixie dust off that magical money tree. Because first, the money blew away from real education reform. Now it’s making its way from [...]

By: Ed is Watching » Who’s Surprised Stimulus “Magical Money Tree” Isn’t Funding Reform?

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:31:48 +0000

[...] me. Back in January, I told you that the stimulus bill — before it even passed — would blow dollars away from education reform. What? You doubt that it’s [...]

By: Ed is Watching » Will Colorado “Race to the Top” of the Class? Would That Be a Good Thing?

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:38:36 +0000

[...] powerful union tangles up the bureaucratic process, we may be looking forward to more of the same magical money tree [...]

By: Ed is Watching » National Journal “Education Experts” (sans moi) Opine on Magical Money Tree

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:05:39 +0000

[...] to answer major policy questions on a new blog. Their inaugural question is about the “magical money tree”: Given the bleak budgetary outlook for many states, should stimulus funds be primarily devoted to [...]

By: Ed is Watching » Healthy Skepticism about Magical Money Tree and Education Reform

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:07:30 +0000

[...] federal government’s “magical money tree” can make untold billions of dollars out of thin air to spend on a wide array of pork projects and [...]

By: Ed is Watching » And There Ain’t Gonna Be No Magical Money Tree at Today’s Rally Either

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:32:46 +0000

[...] cars that would buy? Seriously. And my family doesn’t get to pick the $30,000 off the magical money tree any more than the federal government gets to do so with the hundreds of billions of dollars [...]

By: Ed is Watching » Are You Wearing Blue? Do You Support Massive Government Spending?

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:46:20 +0000

[...] spending proposal in Congress. Say what? I guess AFT has its own reasons for believing in the “magical money tree” (then they must believe in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy – like I do, [...]

By: Ed is Watching » Colorado State Board of Education Members Weigh in on “Stimulus” Bill

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:07:00 +0000

[...] about the education spending proposal inside Congress’ so-called stimulus (I prefer “magical money tree”) bill. Well, rather than just get up on my soapbox again (but hey, if I don’t stand up there, [...]

By: Ed is Watching » Edspresso is Hot These Days, Burning Down the Magical Money Tree

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:07:19 +0000

[...] yet, so I’m not going to stop beating it. I’ve already highlighted the silliness of the “magical money tree” solution to education coming from [...]