If you're part of an Administration facing epic unpopularity, one that has led 90 percent of Americans to believe the country is on the wrong track--and more than a few to wonder if the nation's best days are behind it--perhaps you should be careful with your imagery. Yet here's Margaret Spellings telling the Associated Press, ??"What's going on right now in our high schools is that kids, lots and lots of minority kids, don't get to the 10th grade. Rome is burning."
And she's going to put out the fire with her new No Child Left Behind regulations, due out by noon today. Stay tuned.
Above: "The burning of Rome" painting by Robert Hubert (1733-1808)
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