I really like the President's plan. It seems to approach the education issue on multiple fronts. I think early help intitiatives can be truly helpful in lower economic areas of the country. I like that he doesn't want standards reduced to achieve "success" as has commonly been done in the past. Working families should get tax breaks, as has been suggested in the plan, for higher education. The main problems that loom, however, are how to implement and pay for these ideas. I disagree with the President's critics in that I believe that fixing education and fixing the economy go hand in hand for the future of our country. The President has been much farther to the right on education than I ever imagined he would be.