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Haven't we seen this movie before?

The good news is that President Bush utilized his final State of the Union address to mention education. The bad news? We've heard a lot of this before, including the D.O.A. idea of a national voucher program. Now, if next week the President's budget includes a substantial increase in funding for the No Child Left Behind Act, then maybe Congress and the administration will be able to seriously tackle the challenge of reauthorizing the broken law in 2008. BoardBuzz has expressed why we think major changes are needed now instead of forcing students, educators and schools to suffer under a flawed system for another 2 or 3 school years. And vouchers, again? Really? No chance and everyone knows it. When will the administration realize it undercuts its own arguments about school accountability every time it promotes sending taxpayer dollars to private schools that are not accountable to the public? NSBA Executive Director Anne L. Bryant issued this statement on the State of the Union.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).