Perry on Race to The Top and federal intrusion

Mitt “more testing of kids makes sense” WTF

“More testing of kids makes sense” WTF

Race to The Top Newt Gingrich for president? No thanks !

Arne Duncan renders Rep. John Klein irrelevant

John Kline op-ed: Schools Need More Freedom, Less Federal Control

The move also raises legal questions. While Duncan as secretary of education, has the authority to issue waivers of any statutory or regulatory requirement to state educational agencies and school districts, there is little precedent for tying waivers to reforms not authorized by Congress.

The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service recently stated that, if challenged, a reviewing court could deem a conditional waiver “arbitrary and capricious or in excess of the agency’s statutory authority.”

Rather than force states to adopt policies that reflect the priorities of Washington bureaucrats, House Republicans are working to give more control to the state and local education officials who best understand the unique needs of their students.

Representative John Klein talks a good game but the fact remains Arne Duncan has rendered him irrelevant.

Klein has done nothing to block the illegal  NCLB waivers that serves noting more than excusing governors and the state’s department of educations for their failures.

Here in Delaware our state legislators are clueless and hide under a rock as Delaware Governor Jack Markell hands-over control of our local schools to Arne Duncan. Markell sells his bullshit that we need to invest in our Delaware public schools at the same time he cuts state funding. The only one the will reap profits from this so-called investment is Markell himself. Show us your stock portfolio Jack.

As far as U.S. Rep. John Klein, his inability to stop Arne Duncan’s takeover of local control renders him irrelevant and useless! Klein needs to step down as Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee.

A vote for Obama is a vote for Arne Duncan; Vote no for Obama

White House further erodes local control in education: George Will is a Washington Post columnist.

 A president “gives” states a “voice” in education policy concerning grades K through 12? How did this quintessential state and local responsibility become tethered to presidential discretion? Here is how federal power expands, even in the guise of decentralization.

When Duncan warned (exaggeration in the service of supposedly constructive panic) that 82 percent of the nation’s 100,000 public schools could be labeled failures next year, states clamored for relief, which is offered in the form of waivers: Washington’s dictation of education policy through legislation will be waived if states embrace Washington’s dictation of education policy by executive branch fiat.

Schools only failed to meet the provisions of NCLB which was deemed flawed. Do we convict people for DUIs when the Breathalyzer doesn’t turn on? In Delaware DSTP was flawed and it was replaced.

Delaware Governor Jack Markell sells Delaware public schools to Arne Duncan for the sake of his own political career. When Markell leaves office the people will wake-up and realized they have been raped.

Federal intrusion is not the change I jumped political ship to vote for! Obama was to take on Wall Street and but instead sends billion in education dollars to Wall Street listed forms like Wireless Generation. Obama slaps Wall Street in the face and then stuffs billions in their back-pockets

It’s time to defund NCLB and return those federal dollars to local schools. We need more teachers and yes a means to purge ineffective ones and we need small class sizes. We need strong teacher continuing ed programs based on what teachers need not what politicians and the business roundtable wants.