Two key Republican lawmakers are asking the federal government to reject Minnesota's application for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law.
Patrick Garofalo, R-Farmington, and Sondra Erickson, R-Princeton, are the two chairs of the main education committees in the Minnesota House. They say the Dayton administration is proposing changes to the state's education system in ways that don't follow current law.
Garofalo and Erickson co-signed a letter sent Tuesday to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. "While we support the effort to seek relief under a flexibility request," the letter reads, "we must clarify that the (Minnesota Department of Education) submission or resubmission does not represent the will of the legislature nor all the stakeholders involved in the drafting of the flexibility request."
This is an excellent example of what we can expect this year, especially during the next couple of months. Namely, that infantile conservative intransigence will be made to extend to every possible issue, to the detriment of all Minnesotans. The right wing is so far gone in delusional dogma, so incapable of apprehending reality in any sort of objective, rational fashion, that they'll keep digging for the bottom, no matter what.
