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Post by showcase on Jan 30, 2004 16:07:03 GMT -5
Finally, someone with some sense on the issue. The Republican-controlled Virginia House of Delegates sharply criticized President Bush's signature education program Friday, calling the No Child Left Behind Act an unfunded mandate that threatens to undermine the state's own efforts to improve students' performance.
By a vote of 98 to 1, the House passed a resolution calling on Congress to exempt states like Virginia from the program's requirements. The law "represents the most sweeping intrusions into state and local control of education in the history of the United States," the resolution says, and will cost "literally millions of dollars that Virginia does not have."
The federal law aims to improve the performance of students, teachers and schools with yearly tests and serious penalties for failure. In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, Bush said that "the No Child Left Behind Act is opening the door of opportunity to all of America's children."
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No Republicans voted against the resolution, a fact that House Education Committee Chairman James H. Dillard II (R-Fairfax) said is proof that "the damn law is ludicrous."www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43173-2004Jan23.html?nav=hptop_tbCouldn't agree more: NCLB is just vouchers masquerading as well-intentioned education reform. Just slap a feel-good label on a crappy idea and insist it's in the nation's best interest. Ahh, leadership at its finest.
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Post by Coast2CoastHoya on Jan 30, 2004 20:30:06 GMT -5
So bad, it's like Matt Greoning thought of it and stuck in a Simpson's episode frought with hyperbole.
mmmmmm. . . . .hyperbole. . . .
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