On MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning, TIME’s Joe Klein discussed the proposed stimulus package - with an early focus on the education portion:

KLEIN …Things I’d love to see in this: I think you have over a hundred billion dollars in education, but no quid pro quo from the teachers unions. If you’re going to give a hundred billion in education, at least we should get one extra month of teaching a year. Or, those funds should only be available to districts that eliminate teacher tenure.

Joe Scarborough jumped in with this sarcastic aside:

SCARBOROUGH …With a provision in there, as you suggest Joe, that says absolutely none of this one hundred billion dollars shall be spent to allow poor children to go to the same school that rich Senators send their kids to.

(The education chatter begins @ 1:20 in the video below.)