Reply #31: NCLB didn't give more dollars to schools.

[donco6]

At least, not to my school. All it did was set up an impossible "every child will be proficient by Year X" timeline, with proficient being measured solely by tests developed by Republicans to ensure that public schools fail.

And then we have pallets of dollars going to Iraq with no oversight or auditing whatsoever. No-bid contracts for BILLIONS of dollars from the feds. $750 billion bailout to banks and we can't even ASK them what they're doing with the money.

And people wonder why we get pissed off. I have to explain IN WRITING to my state dept. of education when my revenue received (corrected for receivables and deferreds) is off by $1 from what their accounting says they sent. YES, ONE DOLLAR.

It's preposterous. And people think we need more fiscal oversight.