Terrible policy. Why bother to reauthorize something so gutted? For parents, NCLB and IDEA are the only way to get a foot in the door or beyond the schoolhouse gates. Ensure states can no longer game the system and parents might get a seat at the table. Meaningful education advocacy starts in the home. Take a look at the increase of parents turning to homeschooling when they realize the house never loses.
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The house never loses -- perfect!
That's it, exactly. Individual parents are the only advocates individual students have, and we can't get past the schoolhouse door.
I will carry on supporting NCLB out of sheer cussedness* but my belief is that until children have advocates and schools have a clientele (that would be us: parents and taxpayers) it's mostly going to be a matter of rearranging the deck chairs on buying brand-new SMARTChairs for the Titanic.
Seriously, what more is there to say?
The house never loses.
Last word.
* well, not just sheer cussedness
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