Yesterday, at a CATO forum on No Child Left Behind (NCLB), I asked neocon guru “Checker” Finn, who, along with a Bush administration spokesperson, where taking quite a pounding from the CATO crowd for supporting NCLB, if he favored subjecting private schools who participated in a (hypothetical) federal voucher program to the same testing and other requirements NCLB imposes on “public” schools. Finn said he did favor imposing federal mandates on private schools who accept federal funds. As a follow-up I asked if he favored imposing these mandates on homeschoolers, Finn said “he wasn’t going to touch that one,” implying … Continue reading Neocons and education