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Yes, there was quite a scandal in Houston ISD. Gov. Bush was not the superintendent, nor was he directly involved. Teachers and administrators don't like accountability, and I'm sure that some buckled under pressure and cooked the numbers or cheated. It's the same as in any business, just that educators are not used to it. All I know is that at the mostly hispanic elementary school where my wife taught, there was more stress and pressure on the teachers, but that the kids(most of whom knew english as a 2nd language) started slowly but steadily improving, and that they could all read. They may not have gotten the enrichment provided by building models of volcanoes anymore, but dammit, they learned to read and do math, and they'll be better for it in the long run. This has gotten way off topic, but quoting some article about a Houston ISD scandal doesn't prove anything, or even effectively argue, against the no child left behind school reforms of Bush when he was governor of Texas.
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