Schools Matter: Turnaround Millions, Mass Insight, and Scrubbed Websites

Schools Matter: Turnaround Millions, Mass Insight, and Scrubbed Websites

When the corporate tutoring piece (Supplemental Services) was inserted into the NCLB legislation in 2001, Sen. Judd Gregg, who was Bush's chief water carrier, sought to rally the privatizers, who were distraught that school vouchers had finally been banished from the Bill:

Conservatives were angry and disappointed that school vouchers had once more been stripped out, but Gregg and others remained optimistic that in subsequent reauthorization of NCLB in 2007, vouchers would be an easier sell based on the private tutoring precedent and the anticipated failure rates on state assessments. The failure rates would provide the documentation to soften, and eventually eliminate, public resistance to school vouchers and private management companies. [Elizabeth] Debray quotes a Senate aide, who preferred to remain anonymous, on Gregg’s selling of the supplemental services compromise in March 2001:

“[Senator] Gregg was explaining why they [other Republican senators] should vote for the bill . . .and he said, ‘Well, the supplemental