No Child Left Behind, an inconvenient truth for leftists

Many uninformed blog commenters on the left believe that the No Child Left Behind act is a Republican invention. It is not. The policy was drafted by, and the bill was passed by and with the cooperation of many prominant lefties. How the left has come to whitewash this part of their recent history is a mystery to me. It is a given that they will try to blame anything that goes wrong on the opposite party but if I were them I wouldn't even go there with regards to No Child. It leaves them open to ridicule.

The jury is still out as to whether the act will do what it is intended to achieve, but you can bet your bottom dollar that if it turns out to be successful the left will start claiming it as their baby.