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AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 6 days agoThe bill was co-authored and championed by Senator Ted Kennedy, a stalwark Democratic, and Representative George Miller (D-CA). It passed the Senate 91–8 and the House 381–41. Just because it was passed during the Bush administration doesn’t mean it was Republican initiative.
Many small government libertarians and conservatives hated the NCLB because they saw it as government overreaching.
Charter schools are legislately introduced in the Obama era bill, Race to the Top, along with common core standards being tied to funding.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 days ago
Yeah, that was the era of the one party system, when Republicans ran everything, and the Corporate Dems let them, because they believed in Lite Conservativism.
The fact that “Democratic” legislation was introduced during a Republican administration, and was voted for by most Republicans, and then signed by a Republican president, would indicate that it was probably not a very “Democratic” piece of legislation.
Back then, it was often hard to tell the difference between the parties. Those differences have widened greatly, and will continue to widen into the future. Just because Conservatives, and Conservative Lites, all backed multiple bills that were engineered to fail, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take another crack at it, but in Good Faith this time.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The only reason we can tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans now is because the Republicans finally changed into the demon they’ve always courted. The Dems are the same as they ever were. The Dems, more out of touch than ever, would produced the same legislation updated with some Obama era metrics. I don’t know who you think the Democrats are, but they aren’t different today.