President Obama's "Race to the Top" plan is one of the largest (and most expensive) educational reforms in history. It encourages states to participate in a "race" for federal recognition. The goal is to encourage states to raise their educational standards by offering grants to those who are deemed to have improved the most.
Mitt Romney began by praising Obama's plan, and then began having second thoughts and changing his viewpoint on the issue (As he has done already in the past). Herman Cain believes in the expansion of charter schools, and supports Obama's plan.
Ron Paul, ever endorsing the limitation of federal power, disagrees with this plan. In fact, he disagrees with the entire Department of Education and plans to abolish it, feeling that decisions involving education should be determined on a state/local level. This places more power in the hands of the states, and less in the hands of power-hungry bureaucrats in Washington DC.
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