In researching this issue (the claim that Bush has some strange mental health screening plan in the works), (after having been refered to this thread from another that seemed to be a duplicate of it, which is now pulled as it's reviewed), I came across your post here.
As far as I understand, Goals 2000 is no longer an active government program, as all its funding was yanked a few years ago. Source
Comments? I'd be interested to hear yours, as I've hear others talk about Goals 2000 spending and influence in the past. When I heard about it and did some reasearch into it, I found the article above from the Home School Legal Defense Association. It would appear to indicate Goals 2000 is no more, but again, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter.
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Luckily, Goals 2000 was permanently defunded by the Federal Government in 2002, as part of the "No Child Left Behind Act". My only concern is how much of the mechanism that was put in place has been dismantled at the state and local level? And, how much of this new program is just a reincarnation of some of the more troubling parts of Goals 2000?
It was hard to find anything definitive on this subject from what information is out there. My suspicion is that certain states may still have some or all of the original Goals 2000 still in place. The large bureaucracies that run the state education systems move very slowly and usually not in a direction that we would like to see. Just because the federal government is not funding this component of a given state's education budget does not mean that all the parts of Goals 2000 have been removed from that state's system.
I suspect that if the Goals 2000 system was fully integrated into their education system it would not easily be extricated from it. Some states may see it as simpler to just leave it and try to then integrate Bush's new "No child left behind" plan into it. Also, some state education officials may like it enough to retain the parts they like. I did see some articles in my original research into this issue that stated that in a number of states it was still in place in one form or another.
I will try to find those references for you in the next few days. I am on the road for the next few weeks but should be able to find some of the info for you.