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Originally Posted by ASUADPi
The teacher in me wonders if Gore were president would I be putting up with the craptastic law called NCLB?
Methinks not.
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I don't know. We had a Democratic governor in Georgia whose educational reforms were as intense: end of course test in every class in high school, teacher evaluation based on student performance, the end of tenure.*
He lost his re-election bid to a Republican guy who while he hasn't increased funding as much as some folks want and wasn't able to give teachers a raise a few years when state revenue was down, has pushed for small raises two years in a row, created a Master teacher distinction with a 10% incentive, and for two years now pushed for each teacher to get a $100 gift card that we could decide how to spend. $100 bucks isn't much, but it's more than anyone has ever given us before.
I don't think Al would have been especially bad, but I don't know that you can assume that he wouldn't have screwed around with education reform just because of party affiliation. (Forgive me for that assumption if your comment was based on considerably more than that.)
*Some of these "reforms" don't bother me, and some of the problems with NCLB are what the states and local systems did trying to comply with the law itself.