Jack Jennings
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"Jack Weldon Jennings" was a professional American football player who played offensive lineman for eight seasons for the Chicago Cardinals.

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The big question is will the Bush administration be able to defuse this political opposition.

In the abstract, it's a good idea that students know more about the Constitution. Civics has been squeezed out of the curriculum.

(The federal government) is giving states the duty to monitor it, but the states are saying, 'We don't have the manpower. We don't have the resources'.... And the school districts are being told they can't regulate this — that it's up to the states.

The bottom line is we should take pleasure in the fact American kids are doing better in math. Math achievement is going up in the United States in the long term. It is not, however, where kids in the United States ought to be.

One benefit of the law is that it gives schools the authority to do things they've wanted to do for a long time but couldn't.

The key question (for parents) is whether kids are doing better in regular school as a result of the services.

[In Michigan, Maryland and California, according to the Washington-based Center On Education Policy, most school districts have chosen to replace teaching and administrative staffs - one of the options outlined by the law.] Right now, you're not seeing radical restructuring, ... States are being very cautious.

Math achievement is going up in the United States in the long term, ... It is not, however, where kids in the United States ought to be.

It's a race against time over whether the Bush administration will be able to administer the act more sensibly so that people do not get so angry that the act will be overthrown by court or rewritten or substantially amended by Congress.