[summer]

Interesting news. Also from the article:

At the same time, N.A.A.C.P. representatives held a news conference outside the courthouse announcing the organization's decision to intervene. Scot X. Esdaile, the president of the Connecticut branches of the N.A.A.C.P., said the organization was aligning itself with the Bush administration "on this particular issue and only this particular issue."

Mr. Esdaile said he had received approval to intervene from the N.A.A.C.P.'s national leadership.

[summer]

As I have said before, I really think Dem candidates in the future will be losing elections because of this education issue. (Sorry, Dem leaders!!!)

But it's such an important issue, and so difficult on so many levels.

Even if you disagree with federal intervention in education, as I know many on this forum do, I still think you have to give GW (and FL Gov Jeb Bush) a lot of credit for not letting go or backing off from their desire to improve public education for minority kids. Their dedication to this issue has been remarkable -- and puts the GOP in a position of leadership in the eyes of many voters who in the past would never have voted GOP.

Just my opinion.

[reelfoot]

Hope Connecticut prevails. Unfunded mandates are an unconstitutional impingement on the sovereignty of the states. Of course, NCLB is itself an unconsitutional federal exercise in education. But the president, congress, and federal courts have long ago proven that they don't much care for the 9th and 10th amendments.

I hope both the Bush administration and the NAACP get slapped down on this.

[Clemenza]

Don't get me started on how school districts in the northeast segregate black and latino kids through the "redlining" of school district boundaries.

I'm not a fan of NCLB, but the law is the law.

[AbeKrieger]

Even a broken clock....

[nutmeg]

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