Analyzing No Child Left Behind

"The Bush administration has actually proposed cuts in No Child Left Behind funding in the last two fiscal years" though Congress increased the appropriation. Now, two years later, many are giving the measure "poor marks." Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) says, "Funding only 65 percent of the No Child Left Behind Act, as President Bush would, in my book is a D minus grade." And the disappointment crosses party lines as well. "Conservatives and some school officials around the country are upset about what they regard as a big-government, top-down approach to reforming education — one that has imposed strict testing standards on schools and threatens to tag many of them as failing."

LEAVING THE DATA BEHIND TO PREVENT BEING LEFT BEHIND, DIVERSITY LEFT BEHIND, GIFTED KIDS LEFT BEHIND, STATES LEAVING ADMINISTRATION BEHIND, and NO BUSINESS LEFT BEHIND.

Bush is the Big Behinder