On 19 Feb 2004 13:18:38 -0800, jim rozen
wrote:

In article , Gunner says...

Its evident that state and local agencies are unable or unwilling to
set reasonable standards.

Look, I like the idea - make the local schools accountable
on a federal level. It would solve a lot of problems but
honestly I think the idea will never ever ever ever come
to pass in your or my lifetime.

Not until we burn NEA headquarters and hang the *******s from lamp
posts.

There's enough hollering about local schoolboards having
to submit to state mandates requirements and standards.
Having to do this on a federal level will rightly have
individual states screaming. There is *no* part of the
constitution that says, "the federal govenment is in
charge of setting education standards." Nope, none.

Jim

The states bitch about Unfunded Mandates forced on them by the Feds.
And in many cases they are rightly ****ed.

While this is would be a Mandate..the expenses are already supposed to
be born by the states in providing a quality education. Which they
already spend money on..and damned poorly.

Gunner

"To be civilized is to restrain the ability to commit mayhem.
To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas