First we take your money, then we take your schools
Cato Institute
by Neal McCluskey
11/09/06
'Local schools remain under local control,' Bush declared in his radio address, though NCLB dictates everything from how reading is taught to teacher qualifications. Similarly, in response to a question about the expansion of federal power during her tenure, Secretary Spellings recently insisted that 'I'm a good Federalist and a good Republican.' But the billion-dollar question remains: How can the administration hew to the ideal of local control while simultaneously advocating federal intrusion into the classroom? They can't. Either they stick to the Constitution and keep the federal government out of education, or they chuck it and run the schools from Washington...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6763
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Neal McCluskey
11/09/06
'Local schools remain under local control,' Bush declared in his radio address, though NCLB dictates everything from how reading is taught to teacher qualifications. Similarly, in response to a question about the expansion of federal power during her tenure, Secretary Spellings recently insisted that 'I'm a good Federalist and a good Republican.' But the billion-dollar question remains: How can the administration hew to the ideal of local control while simultaneously advocating federal intrusion into the classroom? They can't. Either they stick to the Constitution and keep the federal government out of education, or they chuck it and run the schools from Washington...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6763
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 9. Nov, 14:07
