NCLB is nothing more (or became nothing more, I don't think the version that was passed does what it was originally conceived to do) than an attempt to dismantle public education. The logic, as explicated in the Stossel video linked above, is that people should be given a choice as to where their children go to school. That sounds really good, if you can afford to exercise that choice, but many people in America, possibly most people, can't afford to send their kids to another school district, much less to private school. But conservatives would rather dismantle the public education system under the banner of free markets than try to fix it. I don't know what the solution to fix our system of education is, but I don't think turning it over to private enterprise to be converted into the equivalent of HMOs is the answer.