How much do I get from the Obama administration to care about children’s education?

White House Press Release   02/09/12

“No Child Left Behind, Announces Flexibility in Exchange for Reform for Ten States”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/09/president-obama-our-children-can-t-wait-congress-fix-no-child-left-behin

Pres. Barack Obama will announce today that ten states that have agreed to implement bold reforms around standards and accountability will receive flexibility from the burdensome mandates of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).  In exchange for this flexibility, these states have agreed to raise standards, improve accountability and undertake essential reforms to improve teacher effectiveness.  The ten states approved for flexibility are Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

In a White House announcement attended by state education officials, teachers, civil rights and business leaders, the President will say that NCLB, which is five years overdue for a rewrite, is driving the wrong behaviors from teaching to the test of federally determined, one-size-fits-all interventions. 

“My administration is giving states the opportunity to set higher, more honest standards in exchange for more flexibility,” said Pres. Obama.

States receiving waivers no longer have to meet 2014 target s set by NCLB but they must set new performance targets for improving student achievement.

Commons Sense Review

I find it interesting that there is (for good or bad) an educational program that already exists.  Now the administration flexibility is an extension of that education program…. I get the feeling this is code to tell education systems to follow a certain way of educating children.   So the question stands, how much federal funds are going to be directed to these supportive states?

I say shame on you Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee, stand up for your right to structure your education system.  To think only over paid, they went to an Ivy League school, so they must be more intelligent than the masses people need to direct our children to more successful lives is pure ignorance…

It’s about money!