This plan has nothing to do with education. Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. Every time the feds increase their involvment in areas like medicine, retirement, and now education, the problems get worse, not better. Yes there is a better way, which the republicans once touted. It was called eliminating the Dept of Education.
I will guarantee you one thing though. By every measure, the federal education bureaucrats will "prove" that with their involvement, education will improve according to their standards. They will demonstrate test score improvement across the board when it suits them, by fudging the test scores, or dumbing down the questions, or whatever it takes.
Bad scores will come out only when the feds want to force a school district to bend to the will of the feducrats. Get ready for mandatory federal "diversity" modules, federal "Constitution" modules teaching what feducrats Bill of Rights and Second Amendment means (Yes, Virginia, the Second Amendment is about duck hunting.), etc.
This isn't a federal education bill. Rather, this bill should be known for what it is.
The Republican Nationalization of Education and Indoctrination Act of 2001