As a follow-up to yesterday's post on NY Congressman Anthony Weiner's complaint that NYC should have gotten a couple of billion more dollars to implement NCLB. One reader noted that Weiner came out very strongly in support of Chancellor Joel Klein's decision in the summer of 2004 to limit the number of transfers out of failing schools so as not to disrupt the few good schools the city has. You can see one of Ryan Sager's old blog posts about it here.

The reader raises an interesting point: "So he's for the money part, but against the transfer part."

I think though, to be fair to the Congressman and the rest of the Democratic Party, we've been extremely consistent in our desire to get the money without having to do any of the work for the city's children that accompanies it. This is not a flip-flop, just a consistently misguided policy stance.