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<p>How can you blame the Federal government for policies/tests which seem to be mainly implemented by the state of Texas? </p>
<p>The TAKs tests are certainly not nationwide as I know for a fact they aren’t implemented here in NY, NJ, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, California, Hawaii, or most other states unless I’m missing something. </p>
<p>That’s like me blaming the Federal government for the NYS regents exams I took in junior high/high school or the Citywide exams I took as a 4-5th grader which is absurd considering those exams and curriculum to support them are implemented by NY state/city’s education department respectively…not the Federal Department of Education. Not to mention that both of those NY exams predated NCLB by a few decades.</p>