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 And what would you have spent it on instead? [/quote]

Easy.  Teachers in classrooms.
  
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Again, how much money? How many teachers in how many classrooms would the money pay for? And would there be enough highly-qualified teachers to meet the need, or would you have to hire less-qualified teachers?

And how would you accomplish this, short of waving a magic wand? For example, if the testing requirement of No Child Left Behind went away, how would you persuade everybody (state governors, state legislatures, state boards of education, local boards of education, municipalities and localities) to spend the money on teachers that they had previously spent on NCLB tests? (Keeping in mind that the NCLB testing requirement has nothing to do with the Common Core State Standards.)

I'm not saying that the money (how much money?) wouldn't be better spent elsewhere. I'm saying it's not as easy as saying that's what should be done and then it's done.[/quote]

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