Why is George Miller in such a twist about funding?

"The President proved, yet again, that he is not serious about creating a world-class public education system. He thinks he can have his education legacy on the cheap. He is profoundly mistaken." --Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/speech/edlabor_dem/rel110707.html

Whoa...The man is obviously upset. But let's try to imagine why. And let's try to imagine how with everything that is WRONG about NCLB, he is so EXTREMELY upset about the funding aspect.

First, I remind you that this is a man who has consistently lent a deaf ear to the citizens who tried to appeal to him about the damages and destruction since NCLB policy began corrupting education in our classrooms.

But, that is because he probably had to protect the interests of his more powerful and wealthier friends.

You see, George Miller's "friends," or the folks he is looking after in this speech can be found at:

http://www.eliminatenclb.org/who.shtml


Contributors to the George Miller Campaign:

Jerald Barnett
Education America / Owner

Thomas Bishop
University of Phoenix / VP

Deborah Blackwell
Touro University / Provost & Dean

Cynthia Braddon
McGraw-Hill Companies / VP

Eli Broad
Broad Foundation / Founder

Kathryn Costello
Pearson Education Publishing

Larry Diamond
Hoover Institute

William Etheridge
Pearson Education, CEO

Lawrence Goodman
School Link Technologies, President

Henry Howard
US Education Finance Corp., President

John Isley
Pearson Education / Publisher

Richard Jerue
Education Mgmt Corp / VP Govt. Relat.

William Jordan
McGraw-Hill Companies / Senior Director

Joseph Kakaty
Student Loan Consolidation Center

Hendrik Kranenburg
McGraw-Hill / President Higher

Bonnie Lieberman
John Wylie & Sons Publishing / SVP

Patricia McAllister
Educational Testing Service / Govern

Lowell Milken
Knowledge Universe Ltd. / Business

Arnold Mitchem
Council for Opportunity in Educ/PR

Jacqueline Pels
Hardscratch Press / Editor / Publisher

Richard Robinson
Scholastic Inc. / President & CEO

John Sargent
Holtzbrinck Publisher / CEO

Larry Snowhite
Houghton Mifflin Company / VP Govern


And, as you can see, some of George Miller's " friends" are also, very obviously the OTHER George's friends--that is what makes this all SO INTERESTING. These are the folks who have made ENORMOUS amounts of money, riding high on the tide of NCLB. These people represent the companies that are fattened up and belching after a 6 year 12 course meal made up of spoiled opportunities for our children and their teachers.

If many people were paying attention to the waste of money, the enormous windfall into the pockets of these sleezy companies for the pathetic quality of their product, there might be an audible and national gasp; there ought to be.

I am wheezing.