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-- requiring state laws to conform to federal ones;
-- linking teacher pay to student achievement as determined by standardized tests that measure rote memory skills, not real learning or preparation for higher education;
-- destroying the power of unions;
-- putting Washington bureaucrats in charge of undermining states, local school boards, and the right of parents to decide what's best for their children;
-- requiring federal mandates to be followed to qualify for funding;
-- like NCLB, standardized tests will be required in spite of critics calling them little more than an endless regimen of test-preparation drills in place of real classroom learning;
-- creating a two-tiered, class and income-based system favoring affluent school districts over inner-city ones, effectively denying poor kids an education and a chance for a better future; and
-- destroying public education in America to create another business profit center.
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