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North Dakota Proposes Redirecting Education Funds For Milk Program

A Republican state senator in North Dakota wants to direct funds to provide milk for low-income students, but Democrats say that he may end up hurting the students he is seeking to help.

On Wednesday, state Sen, Tim Flakoll (R-Fargo) proposed an amendment to the new $1.8 billion education funding formula to pay for milk breaks for low-income students. The move comes almost two months after the state House Education Committee voted down Democratic legislation to fund such a program.

Democrats argue that Flakoll's proposal would take money from the $16.6 million allotted specifically for educational programs for at-risk students, and direct it toward buying milk and juice instead.

“The way the amendment is ... the money is used for a daily milk or juice break," state House Assistant Minority Leader Corey Mock (D-Grand Forks) told The Huffington Post. "It takes $16.6 million for at-risk kids and says it has to be used for supplemental nutrition. You are robbing Timmy to pay Johnny."

Mock said that the money dedicated to at-risk students should be used for tutors and paraprofessionals, too -- not just the milk program. The original version of the bill called for $500,000 over two years for milk for students. At the time, Republicans argued that the proposal was redundant, citing state-funded breakfast and lunch programs.

Flakoll said that his amendment will not take away funds from educational services.

"The only specific language is that if they have a milk break ... they use it to pay for milk for low-income families," Flakoll said. "The excess money is used for mentors and tutors, and those types of things.”

But Mock said that he and education advocates believe that because the only specific spending mentioned for at-risk funds in the bill is for milk, school districts would be restricted. He said he would prefer an additional $500,000 be set aside for the milk program and the language removed to prevent cuts to at-risk educational programs.

Flakoll disagreed with Mock's call that the milk money not come from the at-risk funds. He said that under Mock's plan, which is similar to the original version of the bill, if a school district did not want to offer milk, it would not be able to use the money for something else. He said under his plan, a district could redirect unused milk money to another program for at-risk students.

Flakoll also noted that low-income students receive breakfast with milk around 8 a.m. and lunch with milk around noon, so the mid-morning milk break would be a third milk serving for students.

"In essence, we are saying we’ll pay if you want to give them milk every 90 minutes," he said.

Mock, however, said that the state, which has posted record budget surpluses due to oil and gas revenue, could afford milk in addition to everything else.

"Earlier this session we passed personal and corporate tax reductions in a state that has one of the lowest tax rates in the country," he said. "We gave around $500 million in tax reductions. We’re giving away a lot in tax reductions to people who are not asking for it and not helping those people who are trying to overcome the challenges they face daily.”

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Anti-Drone Activists To Protest Obama Killing Program

Opponents of President Barack Obama's drone policy are planning a month of protests in April, seeking to intensify attention on the administration's controversial targeted killing program.

Anti-drone activists will go after the military, universities and companies that play a role in Obama's drone program in a month dubbed "April's Day of Action," the Guardian reported:

The protests will begin on April 3 with a rally in New York, followed by three days of protest outside the facilities of companies that make drones, including at San Diego-based General Atomics which makes Predator and Reaper drones.

Later in the month, protests will take place at universities and other institutions that conduct research into drones or help train drone pilots and operators. At the end of the month, rallies and demonstrations will target military bases in the US from where drones operate, including Hancock air base near Syracuse, New York.

Civil liberties and human rights activists have criticized the Obama administration's use of unmanned drones to target suspected terrorists overseas. Congressional lawmakers, too, have sought greater transparency on the drone strikes. The issue garnered national attention earlier this month when Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) maintained in a 13-hour talking filibuster that Obama's drone policy abuses executive power.

The secrecy around the program prompted a discussion between Obama and Senate Democrats during a meeting on Capitol Hill this month, in which the president reiterated his intention to keep "privileged information" confidential.

"This is not Dick Cheney we’re talking about here," Obama told the more skeptical senators.

The comment came just one month after the president pledged greater transparency on drones in his 2013 State of the Union address.

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Military Consdering Scaling Back Drone Program

LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. — The Pentagon for the first time is considering scaling back the massive buildup of drones it has overseen in the past few years, both to save money and to adapt to changing security threats and an increased focus on Asia as the Afghanistan war winds down.

Air Force leaders are saying the military may already have enough unmanned aircraft systems to wage the wars of the future. And the Pentagon's shift to Asia will require a new mix of drones and other aircraft because countries in that region are better able to detect unmanned versions and shoot them down.

If the Pentagon does slow the huge building and deployment program, which was ordered several years ago by then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates, it won't affect the CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere against terror suspects. Those strikes were brought center stage last week during the confirmation hearing for White House counterterror chief John Brennan, President Barack Obama's pick to lead the CIA.

Gen. Mike Hostage, commander of Air Combat Command, said senior leaders are analyzing the military's drone needs and discussions are beginning. But he said the current number patrolling the skies overseas may already be more than the service can afford to maintain.

Overall, Pentagon spending on unmanned aircraft has jumped from $284 million in 2000 to nearly $4 billion in the past fiscal year, while the number of drones owned by the Pentagon has rocketed from less than 200 in 2002 to at least 7,500 now. The bulk of those drones are small, shoulder-launched Ravens owned by the Army.

The discussions may trigger heated debate because drones have become so important to the military. They can provide 24-hour patrols over hotspots, gather intelligence by pulling in millions of terabytes of data and hours of video feeds, and they can also launch precisely targeted airstrikes without putting a U.S. pilot at risk.

The analysis began before Brennan's confirmation hearings, where he was questioned sharply about the CIA's use of drones to kill terror suspects, including American citizens overseas. The CIA gets its attack drones from the Air Force fleet, but any decision to stop building them would be unlikely to have any effect on that program.

The Air Force discussions are focused more on whether the military's drone fleet is the right size and composition for future conflicts.

There has been a seemingly insatiable appetite within the military for the unmanned hunter/killers, particularly among top combat commanders around the world who have been clamoring for the drones but have seen most resources go to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We are trying to do the analysis and engage in the discussion to say at some point the downturn in operations and the upsurge in capabilities has got to meet," Hostage said.

Hostage, interviewed in his office at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Va., amid the intermittent roar of fighter jets overhead, said the military's new focus on the Asia-Pacific region will require a different mix of drones and other aircraft. Unlike in Afghanistan, where the U.S. can operate largely without fear of the drones being shot down, there are a number of countries in the Pacific that could face off against American aircraft – either manned or unmanned.

Right now, Predator and Reaper drones that pilots fly remotely from thousands of miles away are completing 59 24-hour combat air patrols a day, mostly in Afghanistan, Pakistan and areas around Yemen and the Africa coast. The standing order is for the Air Force to increase that number of air patrols to 65 a day by May 2014, although officials say that is an arbitrary number not based on an analysis of future combat requirements.

The staffing demands for that increase have put a strain on the Air Force, as they would require nearly 1,700 drone pilots and 1,200 sensor operators. Currently there are fewer than 1,400 pilots and about 950 sensor operators.

Lt. Gen. Larry D. James, the Air Force deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said no recommendations for changes to the projected drone fleet have been sent yet to Pentagon leaders. A key part of the decision will involve what types of drones and other aircraft will be needed as the military focuses greater concentration on the Pacific.

While Predators and Reapers have logged more than 1 million hours of combat patrols in the skies over Afghanistan and Iraq, where insurgents don't have the ability to shoot them down, they would be likely to face challenges in the more contested airspace over the Pacific.

Countries with significant air power or the ability to shoot down aircraft are scattered across the region, including China, Russia and North Korea – as well as key U.S. allies such as Japan and Australia. America's pivot to the Pacific reflects a growing strategic concern over China's rise as a military power, amid simmering disputes over Taiwan and contested islands in the south and east China seas.

Hostage said the Predators and Reapers can be used in the Pacific region "but not in a highly contested environment. We may be able to use them on the fringes and on the edges and in small locales, but we're much more likely to lose them if somebody decides to challenge us for that space."

James said the Air Force is evaluating how much to continue to invest in drones like the Reapers that can be used for counterterrorism missions in more so-called permissive environments, versus how much investment should be shifted to other aircraft. The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.

David Deptula, a retired Air Force three-star general who was deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said the military needs to measure its drone requirements by the amount of data and intelligence needed by troops to accomplish their mission. The focus should not be on the number of drone patrols but on how well the information is being received and analyzed.

As technologies advance, he said, the Pentagon can reduce the number of drones in orbit, while still increasing the video, data and other information being transmitted.

"There are smarter ways to deliver the capabilities that are more cost effective" than just building more drones, he said.

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