For the fourth time this year, W’s terrorist-fighting Secretary of Education has announced changes to No Child Left Behind that will reduce the number of "failing" schools this year. Of course, the motivation for adjusting the testing rules is to reduce the growing chorus of complaints about the law from the states and politicians on both sides of the aisle.
The alterations announced by Paige today only serve to delay the consequences of this train wreck of a law. And they do nothing to address the fact that W and Congress have once again failed to pay for the regulations they expect everyone to follow.