The intent was supposedly to allow a student to move to any other state and continue his education largely where he left off, because with 52 different state education departments, it can be difficult for some students to play catch up with the other students, if he came from another state with lesser standards.
This was the intent.
However, what happened was the NEA got a hold of it and saw the means of lowering the standards, so it would take longer to educate a child and force the state to higher more due-paying unionized teachers.
All it shows is that, at best, the feds should only be involved in creating guidelines that all states can incorporate into their system to ensure children are well educated by the time they graduate.
But a non-enforceable guideline should be the limit of the feds involvement.
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” - some smart conservative
.............excellent post and I agree with you on all but one point. Actually, it is a half point. You say the Fed’s involvement should be reduced substantially. I say the Fed’s should be OUT all together! The 535 are just rotten to the core and they are lazy! Meaning, they pass some damn law and then let a bureaucracy create thousands of sub laws or regs under it while they are out on the golf course or on vacation.
Education should be turned back to local control and monitored by and/or regulated by each state. The Feds have screwed everything they touch up so bad it is time for them to get trimmed back about 90%.
Michelle Maulkin (sp?)was right all along.
The real intent is the data trove that resulted that WON’T go away even if CC is rejected by some states. It’s the womb to the tomb thing that no one is talking about and parents don’t have a clue.