The Education Wars

People were warned on this blog and other places Barack Obama is NOT a friend of education or of public schools; after all, he never attended them but went to exclusive private schools, and they aren't under ANY standards of "accountability" at all. So why should anybody be surprised he acts just like George W. Bush when it comes to the fraudulent No Child Left Behind Act?

But clues are now emerging, and they suggest
that the Obama administration will use a
Congressional rewriting of the federal law
later this year to toughen requirements on
topics like teacher quality and academic
standards and to intensify its focus on helping
failing schools. The law’s testing requirements
may evolve but will certainly not disappear.
And the federal role in education policy, once
a state and local matter, is likely to grow.

The administration appears to be preparing
important fixes to what many see as some of the
law’s most serious defects. But its emerging
plans are a disappointment to some critics of
the No Child Left Behind law, who hoped Mr.
Obama’s campaign promises of change would mean
a sharper break with the Bush-era law.

Joseph Biden campaigned on repeal of this shitty law, but Obama's real constituency is Wall Street and the privatizers, hence his appointment of the vile Arne Duncan as Education Secretary, so his stance on NCLB, riddled with lies and ignorance, is not surprising.

Now I would like to see the most far gone Obama supporters try to justify this. They can't.