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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
So you don't think it's a problem that the bill, once passed, has not seen anywhere near the funding planned, the funding that the bill was sold on? That Bush hasn't even requested much of it in his budget bills, given his other budgetary priorities?
If it is so successful, why aren't the Rs running on it?
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(From the other board, on Burger's well-aimed orders
Hyperbole. "Anywhere near"? The funding the bill "was sold on"? This wasn't a funding bill - it imposed requirements - requirements that the education systems should have been meeting anyway - and then it provided some funds to ameliorate the pain. In the grand scheme of things, the feds don't provide local education funding, even when they announce that there are standards that all schools must live up to, and some schools aren't, so here's what we're gonna do. The "missing" funds under NCLB constitute a very, very small portion of total ed funding.
I'm still amazed that liberals can be so abusive towards this bill - it's the classic "enforce national standards for the benefit of the poor" type of law, but the vitriol suggests, to me, that the NEA carries way more weight (in instances where they are complately conflicted) than is healthy. This was a good bill, but you'd think Bush and Kennedy imposed it to steal books from kids.
