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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

States abandon Bush's Socialist 'No Child Left Behind'

George Bush and the failed policies GOP Right-Wing Socialism
What voters do not understand is the Republican Party is a Socialist Party on
the lines of the UK Conservative Party or Germany's Christian Democrats.  The GOP
wants to grow Socialism more slowly than Democrats.

  • A mad rush by states to get out of Bush's Socialist "No Child Left Behind Act."
  • No Child Left Behind has harmed, not improved, the quality of students’ learning

Face facts.  The Republican Party does not give a damn about our Federalist Founding Fathers and the Constitution of the United States.  Only when the Democrats and Comrade Obama took power were a few token words on the Constitution spoken by a small number of Republicans.

The GOP has massively grown and then protected the centralized Right-Wing version of the Big Brother State.  The 10th Amendment?  Republicans do not have a clue.  A Republican Congress and their Republican President enthusiastically passed No Child Left Behind

The stated goal of the GOP was to centralize . . . to FEDERALIZE . . . all education in the U.S. under the benevolent leadership of a Beltway Big Brother.  Again, the Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves.

States are now rushing for the No Child Left Behind exit door trying to escape from the GOP's centralized Socialist school plan.

Within hours of Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s announcement Monday that he will grant waivers from federal mandates, several states announced that they would apply for relief. Many others are expressing interest, pending the release of more details next month says the Washington Times.
The Republican Party did not give a
damn about the 10th Amendment or
the Constitution until Democrats
took power.


Tennessee didn’t wait for Duncan’s news conference: The state sent its waiver request two weeks ago.

The mad dash to escape high-stakes testing and gain more flexibility represents “a sense of desperation” among states, said Dan Domenech, executive director of the American Association of School Administrators.

“There’s no question that school districts and the states themselves are looking for anything that will provide a break,” he told The Washington Times, adding that states and school leaders are taking a “we’ll do whatever it is you want us to do” attitude toward Duncan’s waiver proposal.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton announced Monday, while the ink was still drying on the transcript of  Duncan’s announcement, that his state will take part in the waiver program.

He said in a statement that No Child Left Behind “has harmed, not improved, the quality of students’ learning experiences,” and he will gladly accept an escape route.

“Such a waiver would allow Minnesota educators to focus on what is working in their schools,” he said. “It would provide school boards, administrators, teachers and parents with the flexibility they need.”

The governments of Wisconsin, Kentucky, Nevada, Oregon and other states also say they plan to apply. Florida, New Hampshire, Montana and many more are considering the idea.

Most cite unrealistic expectations of No Child Left Behind as their motivation. The law calls for 100 percent of students to be proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014, a goal widely viewed as unattainable.

Mr. Duncan has estimated that more than 80 percent of schools will fall short of the act’s goal this year, and many schools that continue to make progress are still stigmatized as “failing” under the law.


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