Are you serious? I mean no offense, but I suppose that you’re unaware of the massive changes which NCLB has necessitated? And the fact that the cost for those changes is, in many cases, still unfunded even though the feds said that they would fund it?
Not at all. I can, if you require, give you plenty of cites about the destructive nature of NCLB. Among them is the fact that the ‘fraction’ of spending that the fed contributes is far below what it promised and what the costs of NCLB are.
Honestly, I’d suggest that you do some reasearch into NCLB. It’s based on a massive fraud in Houston, created with virtually no lit review, and ignores virtually all of modern pedagogical research as a result. There are classrooms in this country where, due to NCLB, teachers can do almost nothing all year other than test prep, classrooms which are so heavily regimented that every hour has to be documented and proceed in accord with a schedule which does not take into account the individual needs of any students. Not to mention that, more often than not, NCLB ‘warders’ pay far more attention to lower SES schools, making it even more difficult for students who are struggling to get quality education.
As I said, I can provide cites on request (although I might have to dig some of my printed journal articles out of storage so it’d take a day or two for some of them.)
But… to say that Bush has nothing to do with education in this country is, quite frankly, an ignorant position.