This is a Rant

I'm watching a program on C-SPAN about the Republican National Convention, it's not actually the convention because they decided to limit the convention activities because of Gustav (no comment). A woman called in saying that she is displeased that nobody is talking about education. One of the moderators of the program said that education is 'generally in the purview of states and localities what would they be talking about it in a presidential election for?" I would normally agree with this woman emphatically since we live in a system of local control for local schools. Unfortunately, the Bush Administration passed No Child Left Behind which thrust national control into education and therefore making education a national issue. That is, of course, until someone revokes NCLB and allows kids to learn for the sake of learning and not for the right to have federal funding.