WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama would veto a Republican bill to overhaul the widely criticized No Child Left Behind law.
The White House says the measure “abdicates the historic federal role in elementary and secondary education of ensuring the educational progress of all of America’s students.”
The legislation is up for debate in the House Wednesday, with a vote expected Friday. Republicans say it would restore local control in schools and stop top-down education mandates.
Democrats say it would lead to the federal government abandoning its responsibility to poor, minority, non-English-speaking and disabled children.
The bill maintains annual federal testing requirements. It would eliminate many federal programs, creates a single local grant program and allows public money to follow low-income children to new public schools.
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Higher education, lower education. It’s all fair game to the GOP stricken.
The President needs a veto stencil and a big can of Krylon…
“Obama Threatens Veto Of GOP Bill To Fix No Child Left Behind”
Why does your headline implicitly accept the GOP/Teatroll position that their proposal “fixes” NCLB, as opposed to correctly conveying that they’re using it all as a superficial excuse to bugger the public education system like a meth-addled $2 whore?
“Democrats say it would lead to the federal government abandoning its responsibility to poor, minority, non-English-speaking and disabled children.”
GOPers/Teatrolls roll their eyes and say “that’s the whole fucking point.” I mean, for the life of me, I don’t know how you can not understand the destruction of the public education system for poor, minority, non-English-speaking and disabled children as GOP/Teatroll immigration policy.
The bill maintains annual federal testing requirements. It would eliminate many federal programs, creates a single local grant program…
So in other words, the Republican idea of “fixing” NCLB (accepted without comment by the AP) is to get rid of the parts that actually supported schools, while keeping in place the burdens that everyone across the board found problematic and worthless. Typical.