Let's see now:
- Underfunded "No Child Left Behind"...
- Underfunded first responders (and continues to do so) after 9/11...
- Underfunded effort to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in Africa...
Yep, I'd say Dubya is continuing a pattern with this one. Apparently, Mike ("Run For Your Lives! Orange Alert! The Bird Flu Is Coming!") Leavitt is a lot better at scaring people than "shaking the money tree."
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Robert,
I'll attempt to address your post by providing these links.
The first is to the AFT site with a column for which I can't find a date, but it's no earlier than July of this year.
http://www.aft.org/topics/nclb/
The second links to the story of nine school districts and the nation's largest teachers union suing over NCLB.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4608598
The third (to be fair) links to the U.S. Department of Education web site which provides information on a NCLB grant used to rebuild "charter" schools in Louisiana.
http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/09/09302005.html
Also, please take a minute or two and read this reviewer comment about the book "Bushwhacked" by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose that I found on the amazon.com web site (which I read - NCLB is discussed a bit further down):
"Ivins and Dubose don't discuss the Bush policies in abstract, but in terms of how they affect real live human beings. They argue "this country no longer works for the benefit of most of the people in it" (p. 293) and they are determined to explain precisely why. What is most informative about the book is not just the discussion of the more familiar failures of the Bush administration, but overlooked or under considered facets of their policies. For instance, in Texas they have already undergone school reform of the kind promoted by Bush in the No Child Left Behind act. In fact, as they demonstrate, it is a perfect recipe for leaving vast numbers of children behind, as high schools out of self-protection refuse to promote underachieving students past ninth grade, in many instances keeping them there until they turn eighteen and are no expected to stay in school. Or consider the vast number of students in Texas who now graduate by taking the G.E.D as a way of avoiding the exams. All education in Texas is now focused on preparing those students who have a fighting chance of passing the major exam, and shunting those with no prayer of doing so off to the side. The result, in other words, of the No Child Left Behind equivalent has been disastrous, and now this is national policy as well. As they demonstrate, with a minimal financial investment in schools, the federal government has maximum input, and not in a constructive way. I found this chapter to be one of the scariest in the book."
Will there be some NCLB success stories? I'm sure. But, unfortunately, considering everything else about this abysmal administration, I'm afraid the net effect won't be positive.
Thanks for checking in.
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