School-to-Work still alive

Work force training in 4th grade, courtesy of taxpayers

It may be new economic times, but we're still spending on education experiments -- like $200,000 to teach 4th and 5th graders in Baltimore City about a career in transportation technology.

The money is a grant from the Federal Highway Administration to the Baltimore City Public School System. It will be used to teach 40 students per year for two years “civil, structural and mechanical engineering, physics and environmental sciences.”

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