Utah came within a whisker of being the first state to return to sanity and retake control of their education system away from the federal government and the inane, evil No Child Left Behind act. In fact, the only reason they stopped was to let President Bush know they were prepared to pass the act, which would give state standards precedence over those of the NCLB legislation.
I strongly suggest to Utah that they go ahead and pass the bill. The idiotic NCLB has done enough damage to the U.S. education system in the short time it has been in existence, and needs to be repealed. This New York Times article gives some background on the opposition to NCLB. Even Texas has resisted parts of the law, and Texas was the model for it. That should tell you just how bad it really is.
Posted on March 13, 2005 09:02 PM