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What’s the major difference between George W. Bush’s No Child Left
Behind law and the new education program that will be announced by
President Obama today?
It’s there in the very sentence above.
The Bush law is a law. It was the result of arduous bipartisan
negotiations that led to an agreement between, of all people, Bush and
the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
The Obama program is a program. It is federal fiat, a decision about
what’s best by your superiors in the Obama administration. It’s a
unilateral move to bypass the legislative process. It may or may not be
good education policy. But the Chinese Politburo also may or may not be
doing good education policy. [Full]
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Living
under Obama is like watching that interminable desert crossing scene in
Lawrence of Arabia. The torture goes on and on and on ... .
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