You can't have it both ways and say that the successes are the result of the states using their flexibility independent of federal standards and federal compulsion but the failures are a direct result of federal compulsion.
Holt critiques the contradictory arguments regarding state flexibility and federal standards.
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I think it is important to ask really what this is all about, just not get lost in the weeds.
I would add to that it is as archaic as the name suggests. This is a relic of a different era.
Legislative categorical exclusions are really clumsy tools that create more harm than good.
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