Obey’s axe hovers over Obama's $1.3B education program

The Hill reports:

House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey is taking on the White House over President Obama’s Race to the Top education program.

Obey has proposed a 40 percent cut to the White House’s $1.35 billion 2011 request for Race to the Top — a budget allocation for which Obama personally pleaded.

This is the second conflict this month between Obey (D-Wis.) and the White House over money for the program, which awards federal grants to states that adopt performance-based policies for their public schools.