Why am I battling NCLB? Bush is doing fine KO'ing it by himself. 10 things that Bush is doing to undermine any positive effect NCLB might have.
1) Undercut schools in need by reneging on $12 billion in funding promised to schools by President Bush himself.
2) Cut 25,000 children from Head Start.
3) Eliminate childcare assistance for 300,000 children by 2009.
4) Cut funding for school construction.
5) Leave 1.7 million children without after-school programs.
6) Eliminate the Even Start family literacy program that helps impoverished children and their parents learn to read.
7) Cut funds from Medicaid that would pay health care for 1.8 million low-income children.
8) Kill funding for Safe and Drug Free School programs.
9)Keep college out of reach for qualified students by failing to raise the maximum Pell Grant as promised -- and by freezing work-study funding.
10) Force deeper cuts in education programs by adding new tax cuts that will cost $1.6 trillion over ten years. More than half of these cuts would go to households that earn more than $1 million yearly, while virtually none target households earning less than $100,000 per year.
Lets not forget that Congress has the power to overrule Bush's grossly misguided spending priorities.