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Do you mean that Bush created the Department of Education?

Given your age, you can't possibly be so ignorant. I mean when we had it on the ropes, he revitalized it and has now hugely expanded its funding again.

I suppose we can look forward to lowering our standards to those of Texas. A historic low for my state.

BTW, do you what percentage of school district budgets are federal money?

Relatively small in direct funding. And it varies by state and by district within the state. In some states, the federal monies are brokered through the state departments of education and the governor. Much of the funding is actually indirect. A meaningful breakdown of the actual funds and grants would be longer than anyone here would read. It's a complex web of funding and varying levels of qualification and participation.

It is the assumption of an unmandated federal role as the ultimate arbiter of testing that is the real mistake. It's a very liberal policy. There is no other way to define it in American political tradition.

At any rate, the rest of you can argue with the feds over it. They can force kids into sodomy education and teach Satanism under a federal mandate. Here is one less person who gives a solitary damn about it.

I can't think of a single conservative that I know who will run for re-election to any public education boards in my area. Actually, I don't know of any conservative candidates anywhere in the state. At least, I haven't heard of one. Not even one. And we will be replaced by liberals when we go.

Bush has told us that we have no role. Only federal bureaucrats under presidential directive do.

It's said that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. Next time, I'll let you be vigilant. After Bush's education idiocy based on ideas from a backward state, I'm done with it. I have only two remaining policy objectives in my term and, given the circumstances, I don't think I can be stopped. After that, I'm done and they can pump any kind of raw sewage into the public schools that Bush or Hillary or Eddie Kennedy likes on any given day.