GOP Leaving 'No Child' Behind

[steven johnson]

The Federal Government knew best -- until a Democratic administration came into power. Then, local control suddenly became the GOP mantra.

Are we now not supposed to trust the Federal Government when it comes to education policy?

I think they're eight years late.

As the Obama administration considers new legislation to fix schools, House Republicans have chosen an education policy leader who is eager to turn the page on the No Child Left Behind era and roll back federal mandates for testing students.

The ascent of Rep. John P. Kline (Minn.) last month to ranking Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee... Unlike his predecessors, who gave Bush crucial support for the law, Kline said he is not committed to the core requirement of testing all students in reading and math in grades three through eight, and once more in high school. He said he wants to give states "maximum latitude."

But Kline and a growing number of like-minded members of his party devoted to local control of schools are likely to complicate Obama's efforts to build a broad bipartisan coalition for the next generation of education reform


GOP Leaving 'No Child' Behind

[lk9550]

1. Dumb idiots

How typical of the right to screw up everything they touch.

[LWolf]

2. Good.

We SHOULD roll back those mandates, and we SHOULD have more local control.

If Democrats won't do what's right, it's good to have someone who will. Too bad the Democratic Party failed so spectacularly at being the opposition party when republicans were in control; NCLB might not have become law to begin with.