This is already being done in the industry. The gov't cannot possibly do it better.

However, there is a deeper, dirty secret you missed Chuck: Data Collection and "unrestricted access" by the Comptroller General. In short, data collection will be mandatory where now we have to sign a release to use our data.

Moreover, the commission will "determine national priorities for research". What? How will this avoid being politicized?

The biggest problem I see stemming from my experience in graduate school is that the language allows for too much interpretation. All you have to do is look at the anthropological global warming controversy to be concerned that this will become politicized; actually, it already is....

BTW, Chuck, I like your tag line.

As a scientist and scholar, I can understand the desire to help at-risk children through education. However, not against their wishes, and the best help comes from generous people not gov't drones who are usually low-paid and usually unable to succeed in the market they were trained. Moreover, the more power you give this people the worse they can become - and there may be nothing you can do about it.

Think about incompetence and malfeasance, and how tort is available to obtain relief if victimized and to impose deterrence to others. You think you can get this with the gov't? Think again.

Nearly every state has already on the books, immunity laws and tort limitations that protect...