What people worry about is the politicization of the content as stated. Kids being taught to read short bytes of information instead of whole books. What you are talking about is not the part that people are objecting to. We are objecting to the computerized teaching by testing.
Some school district are trying to put every kid on the computer, all at the same time, being fed curriculum over the internet, government curriculum that is more like the old SRA programmed reading program than a real literature program. The teachers will remain in the classroom to facilitate the internet learning and supplement it. I know this because they were trying to do it in my school district. They wanted 20 million dollar bond to pay for it. I had a friend on the committee that was doing the planning, a very liberal friend.
I see your point there. It's terribly expensive and it's going to roll out about as smoothly as Obamacare. I suspect their real goal is faster feedback (standardized tests often take months to get the scores back). It's more likely a stupid waste of money, though, than an Ev-il Government Plot.