ABSTRACT
If you followed the education debates in Congress during 2001, there was a good chance that you saw a citation to the Heritage Foundation’s Krista Kafer. If you attended the April 26, 2001, press conference of Rep. John Boehner, Chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, you heard him sing the praises of the House of Representatives’ No Child Left Behind (NCLB) bill. Boehner was ecstatic because a Heritage Foundation report gave their bill high marks on education reform, and he urged his fellow Representatives to read it (Schnittger & Lara, 2001). In that report, Kafer cited the recently released National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) scores to conclude that it is wasteful to spend federal money on public education and that it should be replaced with a system of vouchers, charter schools, and national testing.
