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Democrats support educational choice. Democrats support accountibility. The problem with the bill is that the the choice and accountability is written in a way that makes it rather counter productive.
I think this is the main issue here, Democrats, and really everybody is in favor of accountibility and choice to some extent and in some fashion. The issue is how exactly those concepts are implemented, designed, judged, and enforced. I think there will be a severe difference between Bush and Kerry on this seeing as how Bush's people really dont think public education should exist. Instead of using accountibility and choice as a tool to help education, NCLB in it's current form uses it along with a lack of funding to exacerbate and create crises in school systems which can then be blamed on the poor quality schools so that education can be privatized. I don't think that is Kerry's or any Democrats' goal.
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