Posted on 07/11/2015 3:27:27 AM PDT by lowbridge
The Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives has worked a tremendous disservice on its members and the American children, parents, and taxpayers. Yesterday, after heavy wrangling by Republican leadership, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
By failing to eliminate or even curb the federal testing mandates, the bill instead serves the testing industry rather than the people. Under NCLB, that industry has grown to a $2 billion per year enterprise. As reported by PR Watch:
School testing corporations have spent at least $20 million on lobbying along with wining and dining—or even hiring—policymakers in pursuit of big revenues from federal and state testing mandates under “No Child Left Behind” measures and the Common Core curriculum, according to new analysis detailed in this Reporters’ Guide by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD).
Sadly, standardized tests provide very little instructional value, take up an enormous amount of true instructional time, and cost the states enormous amounts of money.
Furthermore, H.R. 5 amounts to an assault on child privacy interests. It removes protection against socio-emotional profiling in the statewide assessments (eliminating NCLB’s prohibition against including assessment items that “evaluate or assess personal or family beliefs and attitudes”). Not only does it fail to protect against psychological data-gathering, it actually dictates the type of Brave New World assessments that operate by compiling and analyzing psychological profiles on children. Unlike NCLB, H.R. 5 also requires assessment on behavioral/skills-based standards rather than solely academic standards.
H.R. 5 also grants the U.S. Department of Education power that it had appropriated for itself to advance its Race to the Top and NCLB waiver processes. There, the Department used grants and waivers to usher the states into the Common Core.
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A recurring theme.
Betrayal is across te board, the donald is coming
“Republican leadership...”
Really? Name one who is a REAL “leader”.
Like Common Core, the rino leadership is a total disaster.
Taxation without Representation.
Tell me again why we need a majority in Congress.
The federal government is a criminal enterprise that would put organized crime to shame.
Real News would be the lying GOP supported its voters,
and THAT will never happen. EVER.
We were better off with Harry Reid in charge. Nothing got done on Reid’s watch. And that was fine by me. Reid did more to block Obama just to spite republicans. Boehner and McConnel give Obama everything they want. And Obama’s not even nice enough to give them a towel with which for wiping their chins.
Some of the greatest evils passed as laws have come from Republicans. This was Bush’s contribution.
I thought getting rid of Common Core and NCLB was a no-brainer. Maybe they see the writing on the wall and they're collecting as many bribes as they can now. How else do you explain it?
Amen. After reading Ted Cruz’s book “A Time for Truth”, it is undeniable that most members of the Republican Senate are only interested in saying anything to get re-elected, and then do nothing they have promised to do. There should be a thorough airing of this very dirty laundry before next year’s election, when more Republicans than Democrats are up for election.
Except Common Core is part of Race To the Top, obama’s NCLB. Nice spin.
I should add, the Rep Congress are still traitors wether they voted for NCLB or RTtT.
Initially it was hard to envision Trump getting very far but these assholes are creating a vacuum the size of the solar system...
Or how about how most Democrats send their kids to private schools? The Democrats are a bunch of actors that aren’t any better and their righteousness is a facade.
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