Yes, there will be more money under a Bush or other proposal (until tax cuts and military spending increases and economic slowdown intervene), but this federal money will be wholly inadequate for needed improvements while saddling states, districts, schools, and their students with
massive testing requirements.
The state's
massive Education Reform Act of 1982 requires that school boards, starting this year, set minimum graduation
requirements that include passage of a minimum - com - petency
test in reading, writing, and mathematics in grade 11.