No Child Left Behind Funding

Bush and Congress broke the president's promise to fund the No Child Left Behind law, leaving it short by more than $13 billion for 2006 alone, with more than $55 billion in broken promises since the law was enacted [1]. Given this failure it should be no surprise that so many schools are being labeled "in need of improvement." The testing involved in the NCLB program deters teachers from actually teaching, instead public school teachers are spending increasing amounts of time teaching to the test and promoting "rote memorization and a drill and grill" learning, not intellectual development [2].