I'm not quite sure where some of you are getting your facts.
http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index.html
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). NCLB gives our schools and our country groundbreaking education reform, based on stronger accountability for results, more flexibility for states and communities, encouraging proven education methods and more options for parents. Passed with bipartisan support in Congress and signed by President Bush on Jan. 8, 2002, the law represents the most comprehensive revision of federal education programs since the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Using figures from the president's FY 2005 proposed budget, NCLB programs include:
Title I. The largest federal K-12 program would provide over $13 billion to local districts to improve the academic achievement of children in high-poverty schools.
Also, you can go to this URL to see what the President's No Child Left Behind program is doing in your home state...
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/impo...nce/index.html
And what's more... federal money for k-12 education provides only 8% of education funds. That is a dramatic increase from a decade ago (around 5.5%), but it is still a relatively small amount. If you want genuine education reform it's best to look to your local and state governments, the federal government can only do so much.