Radio BC: Black Children Left Behind – by Design

This story is much weightier than it might seem. The first thing that one must understand is that the Bush administration intended No Child Left Behind as a wedge to undermine public education as an institution. It was designed to make private education seem to be a great alternative – one that should be funded with public dollars. Liberals like Senator Ted Kennedy bought into the language of the bill, when they should have known that the Bush regime would interpret the language any way they saw fit. And they saw fit to punish upscale white, suburban schools as well as Black, urban schools. The white schools fought back, and got waivers from compliance with aspects of No Child Left Behind. The Black districts lacked the political power to do so, and found their facilities condemned as substandard. Thus, the inequality in the application of No Child Left Behind.