Nebraska Educators Give "No Child Left Behind" A Failing Grade

[LiberalAndProud]

The federal education reform was the most comprehensive, complicated and controversial federal foray into public education in recent history, and it did not receive a warm welcome by many in the Cornhusker state.

“It is less about educating children than it is about politics,” said Marilyn Peterson, administrator of federal programs at the Nebraska Department of Education.

The law’s supporters see it as an unprecedented federal effort to incorporate accountability into public education. To its critics, including many who determine Nebraska’s education policy, it is an under-funded attempt to nationally standardize an issue for which challenges vary by locality, and solutions lay in local expertise and judgment

http://nebraska.statepaper.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/21/4177a48c2bda6

[StClone]

1. So Vote for Bush Nebraska!

The worse he makes things the more you love him.

Note: Not one Nebraska county in 2000 went to Gore.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Not my fault!

I voted for him, really!

[Hotler]

3. Playing Husker Tunnel as I read this.

:bounce:

[BensMom]

4. A quote from the same article

"“One of the studies I read said that we would need to spend an additional $87 billion in the United States in order to reach that target,” Moore said, “which interestingly enough was the amount of the first allocation for the war in Iraq.”