Borrowing an idea from Nixon for education?

An opinion piece in yesterday's New York Times tells about Richard Nixon's plan to increase Federal funding of schools -- and how it's an idea President Obama should consider. Pretty interesting. Here's how it starts:

"Local control of schooling — which means local financing of schools — is an injustice, masked as a virtue, so deeply ingrained in the American mind that no politician in either party dare challenge it. But America’s obsession with local finance, which made perfect sense in the 19th century, is now sinking us morally and economically. To fix it, Barack Obama needs to steal an idea from Richard Nixon..."

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