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The Blog for Tuesday, June 07, 2005

Left Behind

    Under the silly "No Child Left Behind" legislation, Florida had "horrific numbers of schools failing". Now, with "Jeb!" getting his brother's permission to change the formula, Floridians are about to
    discover that thousands of their children have been left behind. That's now the law.

    Florida eased [No Child Left Behind] standards because too many schools were failing to meet the federal law President Bush designed to make sure no students get left behind. ...

    [That's because now] the students who need the most attention, the students the federal law was designed to help, might get overlooked because their scores won't count. ...

    It's Florida's answer to avoiding the onerous effects of the No Child Left Behind law and projecting a better image of its schools, one more harmonious with its own grading system.
    "Test formula change could hurt those law aimed to help". Don't those recalibrated numbers make us all feel better about "Jeb!"'s "stunning" education "reforms"?

    I can't wait to see the press releases - transposed into news stories (with the info on the changed NCLB formula buried below the fold) - about how dramatically "Jeb!" has improved Florida's NCLB numbers over last year, with headlines trumpeting "Dramatic Improvement in Florida's Education System". These headlines will be followed shortly thereafter with editorials and punditry to the following effect:
    when you follow the trend line on this year's No Child Left Behind scores, Jeb! has done more to boost education than any governor in Florida's history. The accountability debate is over. It works.
    (Paraphrased from this.) Or this:
    Let's not dispute the obvious. Jeb!'s recent No Child Left Behind numbers have proved that his education reform has produced stunning results.
    (Paraphrased from this.)

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