It is time for us to acknowledge that No Child Left Behind is a false bill of goods.
It is a like Iraq is a lie.
It is a lie like "social security is failing" is a lie.
It is legislation based on neoliberal faith in the power of markets to force change rather than a progressive faith in the power of people to co-create their democracy, and it is time for it to go.
I represent a group of teachers, administrators, scholars, activists, parents, and concerned citizens who see this law as
a clever long-range political ploy to discredit public education by branding good schools as 'failures' and to drive American education toward vouchers, charter schools -- and even resegregation.
This community could play a large roll in making democratic school reform a real possibility, and I hope many of you will do so today.
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