US Teachers held to higher standard than Iraqi gov't

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Rice: Bush opposes Iraqi benchmarks
Staff and agencies
29 April, 2007


By BEN FELLER, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - President Bush will not support a war spending bill that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

http://www.localnewswatch.com/benton/stories/index.php?action=fullnews&id=103557

Ok, ride me just a second. The crux of "No Child Left Behind" is that 'accountability' demands progress. For public schools, (not private or charter schools who get a free pass), if you do not improve each year over the prior year, you are at risk for being labled a "low performing school." It doesn't matter if your students standardized NCLB test scores are at the 95% percentile, failure to improve brings the wrath of bush upon you.

Now, according to condi, the Iraqis get a free pass. No improvement, no problem! Now all of a sudden benchmarks are bad. So which is it? In the case of the bush war, no accountability is the standard. Whether its progress of the puppet Malaki, Halliburton, the hunt for WMDs, they now consider being held to a standard as exactly the wrong strategy.