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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I just find it interesting that NCLB came from a conservative, Republican president. One would expect a greater deference to federalism, where education is supposed to be the province of the states, not of the federal government. But I guess that went out the window a long time ago.
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Well, MysticCat, it's really hard to make the argument based on anything he's done really that Bush is a truly conservative president who defers to federalism.
He may be religiously and socially conservative, but for restraint and federalism, he is not the right guy.
(He may have ended up getting justices through who will support it, so his legacy may end up different than the actually presidency.)
I agree though the progress from Republicans wanting to get rid of the federal Department of Education to NCLB is bizarre. (And no doubt, it's one of the reasons why some people believe that NCLB isn't REALLY about reforming education: for them, it's about declaring all the public schools failing.)
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