Joseph, that looks to me like using the power of the federal government to circumvent the authority of the states in a matter which is not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, i.e. is therefore reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Whether it involves federalized standards or not, I’m against it for that reason. Should we propose a national drivers’ license, or a federal property tax? There’s more Constitutional basis for those [likewise bad] notions. Why then should we extend a federal role in education, period?
