widowson:

However, the big-government solutions that the Unions and many Democrats (plus, honestly, a certain sitting Republican president) back, has caused an *explosion* of buerocracy and made the lives of their teachers worse.

Um....yeah....Bush sucks. I already said so.

How does that invalidate that big government has damaged education?

How can the Democrats not hang their heads in shame when they've had *much* greater influance over education for decades, and things got worse under their watch?