“It is an interesting case. It's interesting because a judge has to consider the fact that this is a state that's suing. It's not a school district. It's not a teacher's union. It's the state of Connecticut. So that adds a lot more gravity to the lawsuit.”
“It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.”
“[In Michigan, Maryland and California, according to the Washington-based Center On Education Policy, most school districts have chosen to replace teaching and administrative staffs - one of the options outlined by the law.] Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring, ... States are being very cautious.”
“(The federal government) is giving states the duty to monitor it, but the states are saying, 'We don't have the manpower. We don't have the resources'.... And the school districts are being told they can't regulate this — that it's up to the states.”
“The bottom line is we should take pleasure in the fact American kids are doing better in math. Math achievement is going up in the United States in the long term. It is not, however, where kids in the United States ought to be.”
