The Lufkin Daily News

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

According to the Texas Education Agency, the state would lose approximately $2 billion to $4 billion in federal funding if the test was not administered at all because of its inclusion in the No Child Left Behind Act. Raymond plans to work with federal officials to remove the strings attached to federal funds.

http://rickriordan.blogspot.com/2006/11/abolishing-taks-test.html

I'm a conservative, but I hated what G.W. Bush did to America. So I voted for...well, I voted Libertarian, only because I knew McCain didn't have a chance. I would have voted for Obama if I thought the vote was needed.

But now Obama's had his chance, and he's just another Bush. Same bankers backing him, same America-destroying agenda. It helps if you think of them as sock puppets. Bush is on the right hand, Obama's on the left hand, but the same puppeteer controls both. In education, Bush gave us the hated No Child Left Behind crapola. Like Bush himself, the policy is so unpopular that we'll now lurch away from it, in what we perceive to be the "other direction." But it's not really the other direction. The puppeteer is just tossing us from one hand to the other. Obama's charter school stuff and his destruction of the teachers unions will devastate American education. And then the next "fix" will be even worse. What could it be...cave schools? Sit around and grunt and draw wooly mammoths on the walls? People will defend that after Obama's gone because it's "not Obama."