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Hawk wrote:"Beltway rules" ? What does that mean ? Examples please ?

When local & state goverments accept federal money, they have to follow the guidelines set down by the federal agency that distributes it or they don't get the money. I don't know of any programs that don't have federal guidelines attached.

The most recognizable example I can think of is No Child Left Behind.

lonewolf wrote:

Hawk wrote:"Beltway rules" ? What does that mean ? Examples please ?

When local & state goverments accept federal money, they have to follow the guidelines set down by the federal agency that distributes it or they don't get the money. I don't know of any programs that don't have federal guidelines attached.

The most recognizable example I can think of is No Child Left Behind.

I'm glad the money comes with rules. I didn't know they were called "beltway" rules.

Hawk wrote:

lonewolf wrote:

Hawk wrote:"Beltway rules" ? What does that mean ? Examples please ?

When local & state goverments accept federal money, they have to follow the guidelines set down by the federal agency that distributes it or they don't get the money. I don't know of any programs that don't have federal guidelines attached.

The most recognizable example I can think of is No Child Left Behind.

I'm glad the money comes with rules. I didn't know they were called "beltway" rules.

You are glad that our local school systems are forced to adopt No Child Left Behind? What about the NCLB requirments that are unfunded mandates and must be paid for with local revenues?

Could one of you explain the "No Child Left Behind" law?? I've heard a lot about it, but I don't know all that much about it.

Merge wrote:Could one of you explain the "No Child Left Behind" law?? I've heard a lot about it, but I don't know all that much about it.

This is probably the most fair assessment of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind

Thanks, Lonewolf.

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come on lonewolf. no child left behind is a huge success! it makes schools worried that they'll lose funding because kids don't score high on their tests, so they only teach them how to take the test. happened to me with pssa tests. when i was in 11th grade about 3/4's of the way through the year all learning stopped. "it's time to learn about pssa tests." so we'd sit in class rooms learning the proper way to fill in a dot.

that was before no child left behind. it's worse now. now it's over half the year because school's are so scared to lose funding. it's a bunch of horseshit. when i say something to my 13 year old brother about pretty much any history related subject, i kinda have to feel thankful to bush that he hasn't learned any real facts.

sorry for the kinda hijack... i think we all know how i voted. i would like much smaller federal government. it should be up to the states to collect the proper amount of money and apply it to things that need it inside the state. the federal government is nothing but a giant 3rd party in a sales deal. you could buy a new road from the feds, but it's expensive, and will take longer, and it's getting made by the same people anyway... why not just have your state do it to begin with. you know, give them the money, they'll disperse it inside your state relatively quickly because they already know what roads need fixed. yea... kinda makes sense, right?

apparently not