‘No Child’ Law Whittled Down by White House
6th July 2012
In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the question of whether the decade-old federal program has been essentially nullified.
My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
That whole thing in the Constitution about ‘he shall take care that the laws shall be faithfully executed’ was apparently just advisory.
July 6th, 2012 at 11:51
I thought conservatives felt that the whole No Child program was an unwarrented overreaching by the Feds into local affairs.
Now you’re complaining that he isn’t enforcing it diligently enough?
There’s just no pleasing some people…
July 6th, 2012 at 13:56
The brazenness with which he simply thumbs his nose at the law would be startling, until you consider his pedigree: ideologically, he is a doctrinaire Leftist, politically schooled in the scum-pond that is Chicago politics.
Like almost all of our so-called “progressives,” he believes limits on power are for the other side, so Nixon’s “just don’t go into it period,” i.e., the attempt make the FBI disregard the law is a horrible felony worthy of impeachment; while his directive to HS to let more than a million law-breakers evade prosecution by the simple expedient of ordering them to not enforce the law as written is a visionary act of compassion and statesmanship.
Hypocrisy and rank double-standards: two things without which modern American liberalism simply could not function.
July 6th, 2012 at 16:04
Well, there comes a time when one must set priorities if one is to be effective within budgetary constraints. Illegals who came here when children and who aren’t causing any trouble are a low priority; HS should concentrate on trying to find and deport the Baddies.
By your reasoning, every police force should spend as much time writing jaywalking tickets as they do investigating assault or burglary cases. Which is the more detrimental to the social order?
Unless of course you are inclined to beef up the HS ranks by some tens of thousands to make sure the letter of every law is equally enforced. It would be a government jobs program even bigger than the Defense Department. Of course that would also mean a steep rise in taxes to pay for all these new ‘letter-of-the-law’ enforcers. I’m sure you won’t mind…
Nixon ordered a crime to be committed and then told the police to cover it up.
That stands in contrast to Obama announcing a change in policy priorities for the use of limited resources.
But Obama is much more the criminal, to be sure.