Playing the dutiful role of the pol who wants to bring home the bacon, Congressman Anthony Weiner (who was the only Democrat in the 2005 NYC mayor's race who seemed to remember to drink his coffee each morning) is complaining that NYC only got $4 billion in new cash over the last four years under NCLB. He says the city should have gotten $6 billion. Didn't Weiner get the memo that we don't really do the whole NCLB thing in NYC? (Shouldn't that be his complaint?) It's getting better, but the city was appallinglyingly slow to offer tutoring to kids in failing schools, and the federally-required transfer options to better schools? Uh, we don't HAVE any better schools! At least that's been our excuse. Someone should send Weiner the transcripts from the City Council Education Committee hearing on NCLB Implementation from October 2004. Then-Deputy Secretary Eugene Hickok, while being careful not to be too critical of a Republican mayoral administration, explained that the city was only spending a fraction of the nearly $1 billion in new NCLB money that year on anything remotely resembling NCLB. NY Sun version of Weiner's rant here.