Polls showed most Americans believed that President Bush had better ideas when it came to rejuvenating our troubled education system. They also showed that it was vital and necessary to make certain creative changes in our education system so that future generations of Americans could more successfully compete in a global economy. Second. whenever you undertake efforts to change the status quo. whether in health care. immigration. the environment. or the criminal justice system. you wind up ruffling the feathers of the entrenched special interest groups which have a highly vested interest in maintaining that status quo. Typically. the special interest groups camb right out of the woodwork to oppose the Presidents education initia" tive. The combination of these special interest groups fearing interference with their own agenda and unchallenged power. and the fear that Republicans. might. just might--Heaven forbidbe perceived as being progressive on education. was an ominous threat to the survival of the Presidents education plan.
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