Why would Broward County and other major school districts adopt such a policy? Because the federal government was paying them for it.
"Applications for federal grants reveal that Runcie's plan factored into approval of tens of millions of dollars in federal funding from Duncan's department," writes Sperry.
In Broward County, officials failed to intervene not because of a mistake or an oversight, but because of a deliberate federal policy put into place and actively promoted by local officials.
In policy wonk circles, Broward County's deal with Obama's Education Department is called "Cooperative federalism." The idea is that state and local governments "Cooperate" with federal executive branch agencies in exchange for generous funding-funding they would otherwise have to raise by taxing local residents.
For large states like Texas and Florida, the federal government dumps tens of billions of dollars into their Medicaid programs every year.
When public policy is formulated by federal bureaucrats in Washington DC and imposed on local communities through offers of federal funding, it removes political accountability.
If all a mayor, school superintendent, or county sheriff has to do to keep raking in federal grants is tick off a list of boxes, then ticking off those boxes becomes how you define success.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/20/scandal-behind-florida-school-shooting-federal-coercion-not-guns/
"Applications for federal grants reveal that Runcie's plan factored into approval of tens of millions of dollars in federal funding from Duncan's department," writes Sperry.
In Broward County, officials failed to intervene not because of a mistake or an oversight, but because of a deliberate federal policy put into place and actively promoted by local officials.
In policy wonk circles, Broward County's deal with Obama's Education Department is called "Cooperative federalism." The idea is that state and local governments "Cooperate" with federal executive branch agencies in exchange for generous funding-funding they would otherwise have to raise by taxing local residents.
For large states like Texas and Florida, the federal government dumps tens of billions of dollars into their Medicaid programs every year.
When public policy is formulated by federal bureaucrats in Washington DC and imposed on local communities through offers of federal funding, it removes political accountability.
If all a mayor, school superintendent, or county sheriff has to do to keep raking in federal grants is tick off a list of boxes, then ticking off those boxes becomes how you define success.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/20/scandal-behind-florida-school-shooting-federal-coercion-not-guns/
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