Cardona is pushing for billions more for schools. But will federal control come with it?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : His bet is that he can harness that energy and use it -- along with an unprecedented level of federal cash -- to finally fix what ails public education in the U.S.
54% : "Pennies on the dollar," he called it, pointing out that though the additional $30 billion Cardona is asking for would be a large increase in federal spending on education
53% : "Because so many districts were underresourced, people don't even have ideas about what to use the money for that would be innovative and reimagine public education to work for their children," she said.
52% : Should it be approved, the federal school funding he's proposing could become a steady stream that's nearly impossible to take back, meaning a huge change in federal control over local schools.
50% : Federal school funding has waxed and waned over the last 40 years depending on who is in the White House.
49% : , it would be only a 4 percent increase over the $762 billion American taxpayers spend on public schools each year.
45% : Morrison, the district's CFO, does not think the answer is more federal school funding.
43% : Hess does not believe federal school funding is being spent well now; more money would just exacerbate the problem.
43% : To make that happen, federal officials must ask locals how to spend any new federal school funding, said Kalilah Harris, a veteran of the Obama administration and the managing director for K-12 Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank.
42% : By that point, he thinks local districts would be more reliant on the federal school funding and they'd be less likely to walk away from it

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