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O Wants More Local Control for Schools?
President Barack Obama is urging Congress to overhaul the No Child Left Behind Law and provide more local control and flexibility to schools. "We need to reward the reforms that are driven not by Washington, but by principals and teachers and parents," Obama said. "That's how we'll make progress in education - not from the top down, but from the bottom up." Somebody got the wrong speech in the teleprompter. Nope, it's the right speech. This translates to: let's find a way to get local schools off the hook for the product they're turning out. The teacher unions and school boards are united in how much they HATE NCLB, because it forces them to account for what they've done, and they can't hide behind statistics and averages. The Obama administration has said No Child Left Behind is inadequately funded and seeks to replace it with a system for reviewing schools that leaves more day-to-day decisions to states and school districts. Oh. more funding! NOW it makes sense! So this is just a red herring to be traded off for ... no, not traded off. Just another good reason to raise Federal taxes to funnel the money thru D.C. for more control over local issues. I get it, now! Many Democrats, and allies in the teachers unions, think schools need more federal money. Local control = local taxes. Federal money = Federal control. Posted by: Bobby 2011-05-23 |
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