"The administration tried to cut funding for the No Child Left Behind
Act less than two weeks after the president signed it into law." --- Bob Herbert, New York Times
New York Times
The Kids Left Behind
By BOB HERBERT August
28, 2003
[The complete article is available for purchase on the New York Times website]
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He was going to be the education president, and during the campaign in
2000 he hugged kids from coast to coast, crowing about the education miracle in Texas and promising to spread the Texas model
nationwide.
He said he was a different kind of Republican, a man of honor and compassion
who would look out for the kids.
It was all smoke, of course ・photo-ops in a cynical campaign. ...
The tax cuts and the ever-increasing costs of the war are submerging the
nation in a sea of red ink, and the hopes of millions of school-age youngsters are sinking right along with it. ...
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TIME Magazine
Who Killed Teach for America? By Joe Klein Sunday, August 17, 2003
In the midst of the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush had a private breakfast
in Los Angeles with members of Teach for America (TFA), the exemplary national-service program that sends recent college graduates
to teach for two years in the poorest urban and rural school districts. "Everyone came out of that room glowing," said Wendy
Kopp, the founder of TFA. "He really understood education and cared about what we did. He sounds like us, one of our teachers
told me." ...
On July
11, however, a form letter arrived in the Teach for America offices from the Corporation for National and Community Service.
"We regret to inform you," it said, "that your application was not selected for funding."
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