Posted on 09/23/2011 12:38:16 PM PDT by Baladas
President Obama today unveiled a sweeping plan to give states the flexibility they have been clamoring for under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law.
The goals behind No Child Left Behind were admirable ... but experience has taught us that in its implementation, [it] had some serious flaws that are hurting our children,” the president said in a White House speech, flanked by students, principals, state education leaders, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
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Look at all those minorities smiling
Kids can’t pass the national tests? Get a waiver
Schools year after year can’t produce kids that can pass a test with national standards? get a waiver
NCLB has been a godsend to our local title one elementary school, the scores and grades and enthusiasm for learning climbed every year
Now, if it’s too tough or too expensive to add resources to help the low end and high risk kids - get a waiver
I’d ask why not just repeal the bill except the answer is obvious: there would be no “waivers” to hand out to favored cronies.
That’s the Chicago Way.
There are some laws I don’t want to obey- Can I get a ‘waiver’ for those too?
That pesky 65 MPH law is a bummer
The POTUS might now have the power, but a Kenyan communist may.
The undocumented Tyrant’s AG
(Burner of Children; Destroyer of Justice;
Armorer of Hezbollah; Defender of any Terrorist in the Americas):
”Rest assured. The MOST fundamental concept in Law is that all are equal under it.
THAT concept is now officially dead.
On the morrow, only your King and his Czars
shall deem who shall live, and under which laws and taxes.
So your children had best plan their DNC-, Union,
and DOJ payoffs in full … and on time."
yes, some of them can be left behind because life’s lottery just didnt select them to meet the same standards as smart industrious pale skinned people
But hey- your kids can go on ahead and work and succeed, build up some wealth and then share it - by govt fiat
No. It means all the children pass even if they haven’t learnt a thing and all the unionized teachers get a raize. So everybodies happy, right?
This rule ahs had 12 years to get done. The teachers ahve taken kids from 1st grade to graducation and the STILL can’t help them read at grade. What is wrong with that message being SCREAMED at the education establishment!!
a sticking keyborad makes me spell like someone that can’t pass any state education test - LOL
Help me to understand how a President can make allowances to groups of people to circumvent the laws that were duly passed by Congress. Is this not a violation of separation of powers in the Constitution? It is clear that Congress is the Legislative branch that makes the laws. Could this act by President Obama be considered a high crime or misdemeanor?
It is a payback to the unions who knows the jobs of non-performing teachers and principals are at risk. Always, we must pay high to public employees, have tenure, pensions, Cadillac health plans etc. but never require them to meet quantifiable metrics. Unbelievable...
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