The essence of the post is the need for liberal opposition to this sort of educational reform. On the education consumers list serve, which is more conservatives, state accountability programs are attacked and sometimes blamed on liberal educators. On liberal education listserves they have the same complaints, but blame these programs on conservtives. At the state level it varies. In Kentucky the situation is unambiguous.
Opposition comes from conservatives.
Every state by Iowa either has or is planning statewide accountability systems. The point I have been trying to make for awhile is that the promotion of statewide accountability is neither a conservative or liberal issue. It is often opposed by both. School to work is a movement that is not political in the ways we usually think of it and these programs are closely tied to their goals. A lot of it is about money too.