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New York Times
October 21, 2003
Bait-and-Switch on Public Education
The complete article is currently (3/27/04) available
at-- http://democraticwhip.house.gov/media/articles.cfm?pressReleaseID=318
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Congressional Republicans are nervous about a G.O.P. poll that shows them losing ground over education. But how could voters
not be disappointed by the Bush administration's mishandling of education policy generally, and especially its decision to
withhold more than $6 billion from the landmark No Child Left Behind Act, the supposed centerpiece of the administration's
domestic policy? ...
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Santa Monica Mirror
The Kids Left Behind
Bob Herbert
New York Times News Service
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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. ...
As for the Texas education miracle - more smoke. The largest and most frequently praised district, Houston,
is being monitored by the state after an audit showed that more than half of the 5,500 students who left school in the 2000-2001
year should have been counted as dropouts, but were not.
President Bush was
apparently serious about bringing the Texas model to the nation. He made the superintendent of the Houston school district
the nation’s education secretary
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Madison.com
October 2, 2003
Nancy A. Allen: No Child Left Behind Act demands the impossible
By Nancy A. Allen
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Suppose we had laws that required that every automobile sold be defect-free;
that every person who entered a hospital be cured; or that every individual be thin, healthy and cavity-free. Furthermore,
suppose we attached sanctions to these laws, perhaps in the form of fines for individuals or threats of government takeover
or the replacement of all employees for businesses.
No one would seriously consider such foolish laws. Yet the 2001 No Child Left Behind
Act has public school targets that are equally absurd. ...
Nancy A. Allen lives in Cottage Grove and serves on the
Monona Grove School Board.
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