Not quite. The feds put lots of $$$$ into state and local education coffers. And those $$$$ come with strings.
What percentage of the States education budget is federal funds?
Re: Strings. Nobody said that they have to take the funds, if they find the strings so damn overwhelming don't take the money. States never wants strings, just send the cash. Screw 'em. They're not getting my sympathy.
No federal control? There are plenty of school districts (including some where I live) under desegregation orders- -bussing orders, basically.
Curriculums are generated State wide; the feds don't control the curriculum based on busing.
Let's postulate a country that has two neighbors on opposite sides. One is a first country that speaks the same language as the country of interest.....
DFW is a big...school district. The white kids in the city were doing pretty pitsy also. If half of the population in DFW doesn't speak English, you'll find it easier to find someone in Barcelona that speaks English than in DFW. Four days in Barcelona and we only ran across two people that didn't speak English.
Texas has what it has. They know it. It's up to Texas to deal with it.
You might also recall that Bush likes to throw out little Spanish phrases on occasion to show how well connected [and concerned] he is to that Hispanic population in Texas.
Texas schools suck! They are 39th in the US.
I've got no sympathy for any State that has poor performance in Education. If you would like to look at another really depressing link [and this one's a bummer, IMO] here's one: measuringup2000.highereducation.org
Arbitrarily, any state that gets a D [or lower] ought to get slammed: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, West Virginia [note that Texas isn't on the list...there are states worse than Texas]. If you really want to get depressed look at the math proficiency ratings for Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. What's their excuse?
jttmab
P.S. This is the home page of the link above.
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