No war left behind?
Aug. 31st, 2007 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
javasaurusNO WAR LEFT BEHIND
A lot of controversy has evolved over Bush's "no child left behind" education strategy, which forces schools across the country to impose testing to determine whether the schools "pass" or "fail" -- the results impacting the continued funding of the school. Congress has, in essense, done the same thing to Bush's Iraq War plans -- assigned benchmarks and declared that future funding will depend on pass or fail. But the president has declared that the benchmarks and their ratings are not fair, and that he should get additional funding based on his assessment, not the assessment of others.
In a draft report circulated this week, the GAO concluded that at least 13 of the 18 political and security goals for the Iraqi government have not been met. Administration officials on Thursday objected to several of the findings and dismissed the report as unrealistically harsh because it assigned pass-or-fail grades to each benchmark, with little nuance.
(from a wtopnews.com article)
From WTOPnews.com, here is a list of benchmarks including whether they were fully met, partially met, or not met.
A lot of controversy has evolved over Bush's "no child left behind" education strategy, which forces schools across the country to impose testing to determine whether the schools "pass" or "fail" -- the results impacting the continued funding of the school. Congress has, in essense, done the same thing to Bush's Iraq War plans -- assigned benchmarks and declared that future funding will depend on pass or fail. But the president has declared that the benchmarks and their ratings are not fair, and that he should get additional funding based on his assessment, not the assessment of others.
In a draft report circulated this week, the GAO concluded that at least 13 of the 18 political and security goals for the Iraqi government have not been met. Administration officials on Thursday objected to several of the findings and dismissed the report as unrealistically harsh because it assigned pass-or-fail grades to each benchmark, with little nuance.
(from a wtopnews.com article)
From WTOPnews.com, here is a list of benchmarks including whether they were fully met, partially met, or not met.
