Posted on 12/01/2014 11:22:31 AM PST by Olog-hai
The No Child Left Behind education law could be making a political comeback.
Sen. Lamar Alexander, the Tennessee Republican who is the incoming chairman of the Senate committee overseeing education, says his top education priority is fixing the landmark Bush-era law. His goal? Get a bill signed by President Barack Obama early next year.
Doing so will require bipartisanship that’s been elusive since the law, primarily designed to help minority and poor children, came up for renewal in 2007. …
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I’d rather start a new movement guaranteed to provide success, relief, and justice: “All Liberals Left Behind”.
It shouldn’t be approved or been approved.
How about not one Fed dollar for the school systems, for starters, followed up by not one worker on a Fed salary within 1000 feet of a school.
At the rate things are going in the education field if those ‘left behind’ kids just stay where they are the rest will come down to them. Problem solved.
which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”
which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”
which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”
which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,
which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.
New school concept:
1: “Education” courses limited to 2 to 4 freshmen level training, comprising only a minor portion of a REAL university degree in a REAL subject.
2. Math teachers require a math degree.
3. History teachers require a real history degree.
4. Probability of hiring to be inversely proportional to the number of “studies” courses taken by the individual.
5. Unions? Feggedabowdit. There are far more applicants than there are positions. Flush the liberals. Flush twice, ‘cuz it’s a long way to the White Equal Opportunity House.
Here’s an idea: flush the whole thing — and then remove the rest of any Federal influence in or funding of K-12.
And close the Federal Department of Education while we’re at it — it should never have been created in the first place.
Was it not the staff of the Swim Coach that wrote this bill?
Federal involvement in education is unconstitutional and counterproductive. It needs to be ended now.
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