SocraticGadfly: Who says Kinky’s wrong on wanting to abolish TAKS?

October 08, 2006

Who says Kinky’s wrong on wanting to abolish TAKS?

Colorado and Utah have already headed down this road

Everybody is saying Kinky Friedman’s call to get rid of the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, the state’s standardized test battery, will mean a loss of federal education funds.

BUT, as the Great Newspaper of Dallas, the Morning News,, has listed in a Sunday column by Ryan Sager, “Colorado and Utah have openly rebelled against No Child Left Behind’s federal testing regime by passing laws exempting themselves from it.”

I knew that, but had forgotten all about it until reading Sager’s column. So, the “Conventional Three” of the Four Stooges are dead wrong on this one.

Any Kinky fans reading this, feel free to spread the idea.

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