[grania]

Education is supposed to be a function of state and local governments, not the federal government. So it does seem that a state organization that provides enough scrutiny to make sure minimal state standards are met is fine. But as usually happens with government initiatives, this group sounds like a money-guzzling machine passing all kinds of dictatorial and unnecessary mandates.

Eliminating it might be too extreme. Why not just cut way back on its reach? A consumer complaint board for education would be enough, one would think. And no passing mandates just because the feds like them!

[HiTech RedNeck]

If the proposal passes, are the schools left utterly adrift with respect to accreditation or would their next logical step be to affiliate with some national board? In engineering, for example, ABET is nationwide, not tied to a single state. Perhaps Walker is allergic to micromanagement here and the schools themselves a bit disingenuous.

[knarf]

Education is supposed to produce intelligent citizens, not stupid drones.

Kids (should) come out of high school ready to make babies (taught OUT of them by sexual freedom indoctrination), ready to work and be a productive citizen (robbed by the fact there are no jobs that do not participate in socialist advance) and just shy of legal voting age (with no clue what a Republican or Democrat really is and MOST dangerous ... no clue what THEY are)

America's demise is squarely at the feet of the NEA and tributarial agencies