Thursday, February 24, 2005

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Stop the freaking presses

YOU ARE VISITING THE OLD MALKIN(S)WATCH. THAT'S FANTASTIC. PLEASE VISIT THE NEW MALKIN(S)WATCH WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE.
Malkin and I agree on something. Listen, I know that's not why you come here, but every once in awhile, it happens, and I figure I should acknowledge it.

One aspect of her posting about No Child Left Behind was particularly fascinating:
Most interestingly, the [National Council of State Legislatures] report tomorrow comes to the conclusion that the No Child Left Behind Act is unconstitutional. From the Times:
One chapter of the report says that the Constitution does not delegate powers to educate the nation's citizens to the federal government, thereby leaving education under state control. The report contends that No Child Left Behind has greatly expanded federal powers to a degree that is unconstitutional..

"This assertion of federal authority into an area historically reserved to the states has had the effect of curtailing additional state innovations and undermining many that had occurred during the past three decades," the report said.

"The task force does not believe that N.C.L.B. is constitutional," it said.
Wonder how Armstrong Williams and the other knee-jerk Bushbots for NCLB would respond to that?