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House GOP lawmakers push plan to update ed law

Thu Feb 9, 2012 11:45 AM EST
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Kimberly Hefling, AP Education Writer
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<p>President Barack Obama shakes hands with Education Secretary Arne Duncan after speaking about No Child Left Behind, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)</p>

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Education Secretary Arne Duncan after speaking about No Child Left Behind, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans are pushing ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind education law by shifting more control to states and school districts.

A hearing Thursday comes days after President Barack Obama freed 11 states from some of the law's most stringent rules.

To get the waivers, states had to submit plans and get the administration's approval. The administration says it's a stop-gap measure until Congress updates the law. Most agree it needs fixing.

House Education and Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline spoke at a hearing Thursday. Kline says the president's plan still ties schools to a failing law.

Kline's bill would have states develop their own systems to identify low-performing schools and turn them around.

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Sam Spade-3481790

If at first you don't succeed quit!

    Reply#1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 1:02 PM EST
    fernando-2143457

    I say that all children, at the beginning of 8th grade be tested to see whether or not they are qualified to enter the 8th grade. If they do not pass they are separated from their parents and sent to work farms, where for the rest of their lives they will pick crops, pull weeds, paint rocks or whatever else we can get them to do.

    We should definitely take away their ability to reproduce. I figure 2 or 3 generations we will have healthy, intelligent Americans running around instead of what we have now.

      #1.1 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 1:17 PM EST
      Live and let live please

      I say that all children, at the beginning of 8th grade be tested to see whether or not they are qualified to enter the 8th grade. If they do not pass they are separated from their parents and sent to work farms, where for the rest of their lives they will pick crops, pull weeds, paint rocks or whatever else we can get them to do.

      We should definitely take away their ability to reproduce. I figure 2 or 3 generations we will have healthy, intelligent Americans running around instead of what we have now.

      Hitler called. He's suing you for stealing his idea for eugenics. And he want's his twisted idea of morality back.

      In all seriousness, I really hope you are joking, otherwise that is quite possibly one of the most twisted things I've heard on this sight, and that's saying a lot...

      • 3 votes
      #1.2 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 4:09 PM EST
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      Susan-649485

      It's about time they started scrapping this program.

      As one of my sons' teachers told me once, "It makes me teach as if all of the kids were retarded."

      Perhaps not a PC statement but a sentiment I agreed with.

        Reply#2 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 4:04 PM EST
        WatchTheOtherHand

        I guess asking that kids be able to read and do simple math by the completion of their 12th year of school was simply far too difficult a proposition for some states to handle.

        I suppose there is probably some argument out there that 'ignorance is truly bliss' and that by educating the children, we were making them unhappy.

          Reply#3 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 4:11 PM EST
          Belinda_Joy

          Let the church say "AMEN!" :o)

          This is such a blessing to school districts that have felt tethered to and anvil of rules and regulations that prohibited them from doing and acting in the best interest of the children. Bravo President Obama! Bravo!

          • 1 vote
          Reply#4 - Thu Feb 9, 2012 5:03 PM EST
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