Who thinks NCLB stinks? Texas Republicans, that's who. [View All]

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2:43 PM Mon, Jul 14, 2008 | Permalink
Kent Fischer

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Paul Burka down at Texas Monthly is slogging and blogging through political party platform papers. He's got some initial thoughts posted about Republicans, and promises to do the same for Democrats.

But he hasn't blogged one amazing tidbit I found on page 16 of the GOP platform, whereby the state's Republicans officially declare NCLB "a massive failure should be abolished."

Cripes! Do the good folks who wrote this platform paper realize that Texas Republicans basically midwifed NCLB?

And that NCLB is the centerpiece of their Texas Republican President's domestic policy?

http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/07/who-thinks-nclb-stinks-texas-r.html

When even Texas Republicans agree that it should be abolished, will Democrats keep trying to "fix it" and "fund it?"

Or can we get rid of this weapon of mass public ed destruction once and for all?