Congressman Brooks stated, “The federal government has no business dictating to local and state governments how to operate their K-12 schools. Federal K-12 education mandates not only undermine the quality and cost of local education, they also distract federal officials from their primary responsibilities of national security, the economy, balancing the budget, and the like.
The No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Act that passed the House today, without my vote, continues the quagmire of federal government intervention in local education policy for years to come.
While the No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Act takes meager steps in the right direction, it retains annual testing requirements, funds pet education projects of federal lawmakers, and creates even more new and intrusive federal education programs that will be very difficult to eliminate in the future.”
Brooks continued, “The No Child Left Behind Reauthorization Act continues to divert local school funding from the classroom to costly and unnecessary central office reporting bureaucracies that do not help teach a single student a single thing. Federal compliance paper pushers are a huge waste of talent and scarce school resources that could be put to better use in the classroom.
It is one thing for the federal government to help K-12 with ‘no strings attached’ funding (something that benefits K-12); it is another thing for Washington to drive up education costs by mandating how local schools operate.”
Brooks concluded, “Over the past 14 years, students, parents, teachers, and policymakers on both sides of the aisle have witnessed the complete failure of No Child Left Behind. It makes no sense to continue federal government involvement in education matters that are best left in the hands of parents, students, and local and state education elected officials and experts.
Rather than further entrenching No Child Left Behind’s failed policies that daily strangle local K-12 education efforts, Congress should refuse to reauthorize No Child Left Behind and let it die a much needed natural death.”
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