[LearsFool]

The State owns you. You WILL be educated.

[GenXteacher]

The Federal government should little or nothing to do with education, period. That should be left to the states.

[Principled]

By sticking with its own standards, [insert any of the 57 States] can build on its past investments and existing infrastructure and make deliberate improvements only in the areas that need them, rather than be forced into a massive realignment of all the components of its system.

Yes, Federal control is not desirable. States need flexibility in ALL areas.

[ExTxMarine]

TWO, common sense, almost conservative articles from the Austin-Statesman should be some kind of red-letter date for Texas!

That paper could have made Pravda blush with the level and visceral bias in their articles!

Did they get a new editor or WHAT?? Oh, never mind - college is out right now, so they can afford to write these articles without the fear of 25K screaming, liberal idiots picketing their doorstep.

[SUSSA]

This tinkering does nothing to fix the real problem; our single payer socialized school industry. The real fix is to return to a free market capitalist school industry and get government out of it all together.