Few Students Seek Free Tutoring or Transfers From Failing Schools - New York Times

Delivering her speech in a church basement and making biblical references to a "day of reckoning," Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings once again links the Bush administration with the private use of public funds. In making not so subtle threats to local schools and school districts, Ms. Spellings makes it clear that the intent of No Child Left Behind is to transfer public tax dollars into private hands. The effect of this policy is to effectively separate Americans into Balkanized factions that seek to protect their own interests at the expense of the common good of the people of the United States. We, as a nation, from the beginning of our Constitutional government have adhered to the principle that what we are guided by is a spirit of We The People--a plural construction--e pluribus unum--from many, one--and, Novus Ordo Seclorum--the new secular order. The policy of official separation (as opposed to the separation of the establishment clause of the first amendment), of distinction, is one that leads to a collapse of cooperation and ultimately to anarchy. We need to rethink how we can recapture the spirit of We or we risk leaving all children behind in the chaos that follows.

Few Students Seek Free Tutoring or Transfers From Failing Schools - New York Times