"No Child Left Behind" Shows Its Behind

The chief education officials of 14 states have now signed a letter to the Bush administration asking that key provisions of the notorious "No Child Left Behind" fiasco be bent, twisted, circumvented, or otherwise suspended, so that those school systems can get on with the business of educating children rather than the business of affirming the right-wing theory that the only way to improve education is to kill public schools outright in favor of establishing a voucher system. The full list of states now in open revolt against Bush's "education reform": Alaska, California, Connecticut, Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington. (New York Times story here)

One might notice how many "red states" there are on that list.