Was "No child Left Behind" actually a Clinton Program

[Bandit]

I seem to recall Clinton advocated for almost everything in the No Child Left Behind Program and it was Ted Kennedy that really pushed hard for this and worked with Bush* to get it passed. Bush* signed it into law and then failed to properly fund it but the main premise seems pretty Democratic to me. What about the program would we change?

[MichiganVote]

1. Yes the title was initiated by the Democrats

However, the stringent, punitive and unrealistic requirements to close schools, relocate staff and make schools pay for all of these and more changes were the work of the neo-right who WANT schools to fail to enable vouchers to be introduced nationally. Its a crock, people, its all a big crock.

[K-W]

2. You have to seperate concepts from details.

Democrats support educational choice. Democrats support accountibility. The problem with the bill is that the the choice and accountability is written in a way that makes it rather counter productive.

I think this is the main issue here, Democrats, and really everybody is in favor of accountibility and choice to some extent and in some fashion. The issue is how exactly those concepts are implemented, designed, judged, and enforced. I think there will be a severe difference between Bush and Kerry on this seeing as how Bush's people really dont think public education should exist. Instead of using accountibility and choice as a tool to help education, NCLB in it's current form uses it along with a lack of funding to exacerbate and create crises in school systems which can then be blamed on the poor quality schools so that education can be privatized. I don't think that is Kerry's or any Democrats' goal.

[Carolina]

3. Leave No Child Behind

was/is the motto of human rights activist, Marian Wright Edelman's Childrens Defense Fund. While the similarly named legislation HAD d/Democratic ideals behind it, Bush, as usual, distorted it and now LNCB is a failure.

Everything this bastard touches goes from sugar to shit!