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Edited on Tue Oct-05-04 04:54 PM by Reciprocity
I have the transcript of when Ann was on Larry that aired May 20, 2004 - 21:00 ET.
KING: What about the school system in Texas, Ann?
RICHARDS: Well, Bush decided to do exactly what he did when he got elected president. I left $2 billion in the black when I left office and he gave a big tax cut that would endear him to the voters forever, and he, of course, had to take the money from somewhere, and so here's what happened. He decided he was going to set up a system where these kids were going to be tested, not that they were going to be any more educated but that they were going to be tested, and so the teachers then started having to teach the test, because they punished the schools by taking money away from them if the kids didn't do well on the tests. And you know, administrators and teachers are not stupid. They said hey, we better teach the kids what's on the tests, because if our kids don't do well, we're going to lose money. So that's exactly what happened.
KING: Why was learning what's on the test bad?
RICHARDS: As a consequence of that, all the kids spend all of their time learning a test, not learning a subject, and that's what they've instituted, Larry, in this No Child Left Behind all over the country. Here's the worst of it. Let's say that the program would have been a good program. What they did was they cut the funding. Just like Bush's budget when he became president. He went in there and proposed to cut $90 million out of public school education. Well, you can't ask for certain standards to be met and think that teachers and principals can meet them and you take money away from them. It doesn't work that way.
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