http://bearingdrift.com/2009/06/20/norm-pushing-education-josh-talks-primary-costs/ Sat, 26 May 2012 07:01:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://bearingdrift.com/2009/06/20/norm-pushing-education-josh-talks-primary-costs/#comment-18792 Brian Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:19:27 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=7251#comment-18792 Norm, tellingly, isn't running for anything. Norm, tellingly, isn’t running for anything.

]]> http://bearingdrift.com/2009/06/20/norm-pushing-education-josh-talks-primary-costs/#comment-18784 Steve Vaughan Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:00:42 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=7251#comment-18784 If McDonnell were to come out against the SOLs, as Norm proposes, he'd be running against the legacy of George Allen, whose administration pushed the tests through, in the face of significant Democratic opposition. How would that fly in the GOP? Isn't accountability in education -- the supposed rationale for the SOL tests -- part of the legacy of the Allen/Gilmore years that Republicans want to run ON, not away from? If McDonnell were to come out against the SOLs, as Norm proposes, he’d be running against the legacy of George Allen, whose administration pushed the tests through, in the face of significant Democratic opposition. How would that fly in the GOP? Isn’t accountability in education — the supposed rationale for the SOL tests — part of the legacy of the Allen/Gilmore years that Republicans want to run ON, not away from?

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