Re: the education trust's disinformation campaign

[aburke5054@aol.com]

Yes, the argument that NCLB is a stalking-horse for vouchers because 
vouchers are not in NCLB even though some people are for them is a 
silly one.

Art

-----Original Message-----
From: GERALD BRACEY <gbracey1@verizon.net>
To: arn-l@interversity.org
Sent: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 9:49 am
Subject: Re: [arn-l] the education trust's disinformation campaign


Art,


Re, "Arguments that NCLB is a...stalking horse for vouchers...are so 
far out
that they play only in propaganda outlets like this one."


Well, er, ah, in the original legislation voucher provisions existed.  
They
came into play after a school failed to make AYP for 3 years.  Kennedy
balked.  Bush compromised and took SES instead, but John Boehner tried 
to
reinsert vouchers on six separate occasions.


After a voucher-less NCLB passed, Bush introduced a voucher program for 
a
half-dozen cities.  The Dems rejected this.  Bush limited his voucher
efforts to DC and Dems rejected that four times, even though Dianne
Feinstein switched her vote (saying she would NEVER vote for vouchers 
in
California).  The DC voucher program passed only after Bush operatives
attached it to a $378 billion omnibus spending bill which, if rejected,
would have shut down government a la Newt Gingrich and they knew how 
THAT
played out.


I think it's a stalking horse for vouchers?  Silly me.


JB




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> -----Original Message-----

>

> From: GERALD BRACEY <gbracey1@verizon.net>

>

> To: arn-l@interversity.org

> Sent: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:23 am

> Subject: Re: [arn-l] the education trust's disinformation campaign

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>

> Art,

>

> You can listen to the show at www.wbur.org.  Do it.

>

> _________________________________________________

>

> I tried, but 20 minutes of nothing was all I could take.  You have 
too
> much time on your hands.  American public education works much better 
for
> some children than for others.  Getting it to work better for all 
children
> is a great reason to have NCLB, or something similar, with or without
> considering how well American kids are stacking up in international
> comparisons.  Devoting yourself to nailing careless talk by the 
Secretary
> about "grade levels," or correcting misstatements about international
> comparisons, is setting your sights too low.  Arguments that NCLB is 
an
> attack on teachers, or a stalking horse for vouchers, or the first 
step in
> privatizing the public schools, or that it's DIBELizing education are 
so
> far out that they play only in propaganda outlets like this one.  
It's
> over for all that stuff.  Get down to the real work of how to make 
the
> schools better for all kids.  The sad fact is that resistance to 
doing so
> comes from inside public education and that is another great reason 
to
> have NCLB.

>

> Art

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