"Voters in Kit Carson have agreed to pay more in taxes to make up for federal aid they'll lose when the district pulls out of the No Child Left Behind program - a move believed to be at least the first of its kind in Colorado."
This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
Monday, December 12, 2005
Take This Law and Shove It
Voters in Kit Carson, CO have voted to opt out of NCLB. The good news is that these voters can afford to do it. The bad news is that the systems that are being hit the hardest right now cannot afford to opt out. See the whole story here in the Rocky Mountain News:
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