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Clinton likes it when the kids are dumb, it helps to expand the liberal base.

If an 80% increase in Dept. or Ed. funding had improved our schools and the quality of education, I'd be the first one cheering for it. But sadly, No Child Left Behind appears to have done more harm than good, especially when you consider the money being spent by the school systems filling out the paperwork that it required, and the fact that it has diverted attention away from the real problems.

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If an 80% increase in Dept. or Ed. funding had improved our schools and the quality of education, I'd be the first one cheering for it. But sadly, No Child Left Behind appears to have done more harm than good, especially when you consider the money being spent by the school systems filling out the paperwork that it required, and the fact that it has diverted attention away from the real problems.

I agree if your going to increase spending just to increase spending its totally misplaced. I do feel, our schools needed some kind of test.(NCLB) No sure that was the best way to it, but im sure the 80% increase isn't just for that program alone.