California fails to win waivers from restrictive No Child Left Behind education law

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Only an era as brain-dead as George W's could have produced such mindless legislation:

>>>The law has required that a certain percentage of students test proficient in English and math. That percentage has increased annually; by 2014, every student -- including the learning-disabled, poor and English learners -- must reach proficiency.>>>>

Did Bush even know that these categories *exist*? Much less the complexities involved in educating them?

( Does Obama? Does Duncan?)

What about profoundly retarded, multiply handicapped, non-verbal kids? Will their schools be closed if they don't achieve 100% proficiency?

I wonder which Democrats voted with the GOP to enact this idiocy.

I'm guessing: the same DEMs who were persuaded by "WMDs. WMDs !!!!!" and helped launch that other never-ending W-era holocaust.

Thanks, triangulators. Your collaboration keeps our corrupt system operating at peak efficiency.

Merry Christmas.