{"id":5306,"date":"2011-07-05T02:11:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T09:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5306"},"modified":"2011-07-05T02:11:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T09:11:56","slug":"children-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/children-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Children Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first learned about No Child Left Behind (NCLB), I thought it was a good idea, but that was before I learned more.  I did not realized that the way Bush achieved such success with the plan in TX was to push failing students out of the system, before they could bring down the scores.  I did not know that the mandate for states to implement the program came without federal support, and that Republicans were about to cut revenue sharing for education.  Instead of going to to NCLB, the money went to No Millionaire Left Behind, the only successful Republican program.  Now I know better, and NCLB is on the brink of failure.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"5nclb\"With the clock ticking, federal education officials fear that calamity awaits. <\/p>\n

If Congress doesn’t move quickly to change the No Child Left Behind law, they project that a whopping 82 percent of the nation’s public schools could fail to meet proficiency targets this year, facing sanctions that ultimately can include a loss of federal aid<\/strong>. That’s up from 37 percent last year.<\/p>\n

Beset with a case of the jitters, Education Secretary Arne Duncan is warning of "a slow-moving educational train wreck for children, parents and teachers" \u2014 and he’s not waiting for the crash. <\/p>\n

With Congress showing no signs of meeting a request by President Barack Obama to overhaul the law by this fall, Duncan said he’ll use executive authority to waive some requirements of the law, essentially freeing states from any harsh consequences if their schools fail to meet the federal testing requirements<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <McClatchy DC<\/a>><\/p>\n

The question is what do we do now.  In my view, the federal government needs to get more involved in education, by establishing minimum national curricula in English, Math, Science, Social Studies and Humanities.  Republican revisionism must be eliminated.  Funding must accompany the mandate.  On the state level, states, not districts, must fund schools, so funds can be distributed equally, and the quality of students\u2019 education does not depend on the affluence of their neighborhoods.  Without such common sense changes as these, the equality of opportunity our nation claims to offer cannot exist.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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