WE WON'T BE DONE UNTIL ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE FAILING:

'No Child' Commission Presents Ambitious Plan (Amit R. Paley, 2/14/07, Washington Post)

The 230-page bipartisan report, perhaps the most detailed blueprint sent to Congress thus far as it considers renewal of the federal education law, also proposes sanctions for teachers with poorly performing students and the creation of new national standards and tests.

The recommendations from the Commission on No Child Left Behind underscore that the emerging debate over the law is not over whether it will continue, but rather over how much it will be expanded and modified. Even the panel's leaders acknowledged that their proposal is more sweeping than many politicians had expected or wanted.

"You're never going to hit a home run unless you swing for the fences, and this is swinging for the fences" said Tommy G. Thompson, a former secretary of health and human services in the Bush administration and a former governor of Wisconsin. Thompson, a Republican who is weighing a run for president, co-chaired the commission with former Georgia governor Roy E. Barnes, a Democrat.

Universal vouchers depend on a 100% failure rate for the current system.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 14, 2007 12:00 AM