Hi, Bo.
No apology forthcoming, though I will say it sounds like we're both right. Sounds as if an interested district can get permission to use specially designed tests. But you didn't comment on my link to the Tennessean, which indicates that many teachers there are also complaining of similar effects on special ed. My guess is that most educational bureaucrats find themselves too busy to develop a test and get it certified. Besides, where do the funds come from to do so -- there's no Federal funding for developing such specialized tests, and there's no Federal effort to develop a natiowide version of tests for special needs kids, so large amounts of money would be wasted in duplicative test development across the nation. Bottom line -- there is a major problem with how special needs programs are in fact being affected by this new program nationwide.
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There is no way for this Administration to fight terrorism if it feels that Americans who don't share its views are terrorists. I wonder how many groups this Administration is prepared to label as un-Patriotic, un-American, or as terrorists before November? I doubt that this "terrorist" label against the teachers union is going to win many votes for GW. This Administration continues to show its true colors and many Americans are beginning to realize that they don't like what they see...
Paige Denounces Teachers' Union...
"WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" Monday, taking on the 2.7-million-member National Education Association early in the presidential election year...
The education secretary's words were "pathetic and they are not a laughing matter," said Weaver, whose union has said it plans to sue the Bush administration over lack of funding for demands included in the "No Child Left Behind" schools law."
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