It's curious that there is not more widespread support for increased spending on public education. I wonder why there are not more parent's groups organized and communicating their message on a mass scale.

No Child Left Behind is a lie by its very name
alone. No surprise that every revelation of its
intricacies reveals a broader lie underneath.
Schools are not equally funded, although by law
they are supposed to be. That is the problem, in
my eyes, with our educational system; its
fundamental promise is un-enforced, to begin
with! The measures in the NCLBA should aim to
ameliorate the disparities in poor and wealthy
school districts. Instead, it stubbornly
insists on a Ron Brown/Pyramid Scam style
system of testing and pressuring "problem students" (disadvantaged children, often with
learning disabilities) to give up on education
altogether. You can not argue that un-educated,
inner city youths are going to benefit our
society to any calculable degree; these youths
will have been passed up by their peers, or left
behind, as it were.

What exactly do you find "technical" about this? It's not an unfunded mandate because it's funded, and not a mandate.

What is a "complete distracting lie" is the entire discussion; federal education spending is up dramatically. Argue that the act spends money on the wrong things -- argue, for instance, that schools shouldn't be required to demonstrate any results in exchange for money -- but don't pretend that there's somehow less money than before.

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