The best mechanism for this would be to attach funding to pupils, not schools, so giving successful schools the money and the incentive to expand.Proposals such as these will meet a storm of protest.
(It doesn't help that the Republicans in control of the House in 2011 banned earmarking, an age-old practice of attaching funds for pet projects to bills to make it easier for legislators to swallow concessions and show gains to their constituents).
It's about the growing public opinion against Congress giving open-ended, no strings attached funding for the president to continue the wars.
Among the large banks, only three offer no-load funds with no strings attached: Northern Funds, Dreyfus and US Trust's Excelsior Funds.
In most cases, he said, collecting on a judgment involves using the court order to attach any funds the subtenant may have in savings, checking or securities accounts -- by sending a copy of the judgment to the holder of the funds -- and then demanding that the amount in question be turned over within a specific period.
If Democrats proceed in attaching war funds - whether for Iraq, Afghanistan or both - to the omnibus spending bill, leadership will have increased its chances of circumventing a presidential veto.
But attaching war funds to the omnibus also would require the Democrats to abandon the idea of a date certain withdrawal (or a goal to that effect) of troops from Iraq.
Already, a removal of the state's charter school cap has encouraged experimentation, while plans to shift to a voucher-based system that attaches education funds to the child rather than the school is commanding increasing attention.
Attaching funding to pupils, not schools, is the next stage.
While no development initiatives can function without some money, the wealth required to fund them in Edwards' words, "raises questions about inequality, the strings attached to funding, and the power of those who hold them to push resources to causes they approve of, perhaps even weakening or corrupting authentic social action in the process".
