The Choice Channel

“For those who believe in limited government, could there be a worse nightmare than No Child Left Behind, the federal government’s 5 1/2 -year-old venture in engineered school reform? Alas, there could be. Currently, it is lurking in Washington in the ‘discussion draft’ of a reauthorized NCLB that House Education Committee leaders have floated. Heritage Foundation analysts have said the 1,036-page draft looks more like an agenda for a National School Board than a piece of legislation. It would put the feds in the thick of standards-setting while steering state and local schools to forms of accountability that would tell parents much less about how well their schools are teaching the basics.” (09/29/07)