Re: No Child Left Behind Mandates Failure

[ABurke5054@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/1/2006 5:57:43 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
bobschaeffer@earthlink.net writes:

RIGHT ON  CUE, NCLB PRODUCES MORE FAILURE
Louisville Courier-Journal  Editorial
July 31, 2006

The great majority of states, including  Kentucky, have failed to meet 
another set of deadlines of the federal No  Child Left Behind Act, and so 
have evoked from Education Secretary  Margaret Spellings yet more ominous 
threats, including the punishment of  slashing their federal funding....




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Why FairTest continues to trumpet these ridiculous objections to NCLB that  
fly in the face of all reason and common sense is beyond me.
 
States are not doing what NCLB requires them to do and what they agreed to  
do to improve their schools and as a result Secretary Spellings is telling them 
 to shape up.  How ominous!  What American would want the  federal government 
to protect his or her educational rights?  Oh, yeah, the  NAACP, for example. 
 Thank goodness the NAACP had the guts to go into  federal court to argue 
that states should enforce the "letter and spirit"  of NCLB instead of coming up 
with lame excuses why they can't improve their  schools. 
 
Art