>Ok, given that the article appears to have been written by a borderline neo-con, I'll see your items 1-7, and raise you:>No Child Left Behind - no funding

Congress' fault, not Bush, he doesn't control the purse strings.

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>The mandated testing grades 3-8 - Texas has had mandatory testing throughout high school, you don't pass the test, you don't graduate and the school is 'graded' based on how many students pass the test. It's led to 'teaching the test', not educating the students. Horrible degradation of the school system.
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How about testing the teachers? Bet they couldn't pass the test. Its better than nothing, we're graduating kids here in PA that can't read.. Today's teachers don't want to educate the children. They're more involved in the politics of teaching that its okay for Bobby to have two moms, dads,..., to interested in teaching politics to kids about how bad Bush is... Education is a shambles and I doubt that Obama is going to fare any better. If he gets a majority in the senate .. maybe he has a chance.


>The joining of Federal Government and Faith Based groups - Separation of church and state issues

BS...

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>Joined over 20 agencies to create Homeland Defense - and none of the entities within DHD can talk to one another

Again, Congress, not Bush.