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Dallas Alliance AFT held a press conference on Friday morning to discuss the union's dissatisfaction with the way House Bill 1 reconstitutes schools.

Of course, a lot of blame was thrown around: the kids who don't care; the parents who don't get involved; the Legislature that won't fix it; and Craddick Craddick Craddick.

Craddick is a way, I think of saying that the current Republican administration has one thought: Public schools are bad, and the only way to fix them is vouchers.

And I guess I could stp right there. If I only say those two things, you'd figure I'm about to write one more rehash about how No Child Left Behind is bad. Or good.

Aimee Bolender describes the sanctions under HB 1 as "backdoor vouchers." It's just one more way to strip schools from the public school system without guaranteeing solutions.

Finally, here are the most specifics -- and the most compelling speech -- I've seen from Obama on education. Education just never seemed to hit the radar in this campaign. In fact, the only mail I've gotten in my mailbox from Hillary has dealt with health care. In sentences, not paragraphs. What was I supposed to get out of that?

Look how Obama carries that audience. It's mesmerizing. What superintendent wouldn't love to get a reception like this from parents? You feel like you could follow this guy off a cliff. And, whoa, the man gets that Bill Cosby lick in there, too.

I know other blogs have pointed out Obama thinks NCLB narrows the curriculum... but you don't hear Obama saying he wants to repeal the Act. I'm not sure how pre-testing would work, but I do think the time for formative/diagnostic assessment has come... That is, if we can ever get the classroom technology revolution to sync with the accountability revolution.