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The trend is in the other direction; get rid of entry testing and put more trust in high school grades (even student self-reported grades, I kid you not).

https://www.ecs.org/moving-from-single-to-multiple-measures-for-college-course-placement/

Take a look at the states who have passed laws to prohibit or effectively restrict municipal broadband. Citing a handful of states is cherry-picking. Of the states listed in the above report, 17 out of 24 voted for Trump and all of them have laws regarding municipal broadband.

In other words, 70% of states who voted red in the last presidential election and have laws restricting municipal broadband constitutes a pattern. Exactly as I said.

Start looking into the P20 council. Here in the states, they track you from the time you enter preschool. Adds a new meaning of permanent record - lol. Here is a link to get you started: http://www.ecs.org/html/educationissues/HighSchool/highschooldb1_intro.asp?topic=p-20 Link

"An important implication of this study is that researchers are not able to examine the true extent of truancy in this country because each state has a different way of defining truancy. This also makes it impossible to interpret the statistical data on truancy rates because there is no system or statewide information. The lack of consistency in defining truancy makes it difficult to make comparisons. "

How many times has Slashdot said "IT should not be the solution to the business/societal/cultural issue"? Prime example right here, the GPS device should not be doing the job of the parent(s) and the community.

The age cutoff for entry to kindergarten seems to cycle around mid-September, but varies quite a bit from state to state. But in general, a kid born in the winter will have to wait longer to start school.

(1) The proposition.

A company (Microsoft) has a monopoly if competitors do not exist.
A competitor exists { Apple,<insert Linux distro>, Unix, SCO ; ) , BSD }.
Therefore monopoly doesn’t exit.

Brought to you by modus tollens*

Note: According to cognitive psychologists, although nearly 100% of college students have a solid, intuitive understanding of modus ponens, < 60% can apply modus tollens correctly.***

Corollary: In modern industrialized countries the majority is with those citizens that have not been college educated constitutes approximately 65% of the workforce.

I have a thought experiment.
Suppose nearly a third of educated people are able to apply modus tollens.
In addition grant the uneducated classes this same value (however unlikely).

The outcome in (1) is thus: the majority of voters will evaluate it incorrectly, or are easily misled into thinking that they are correct. It follows that the governments that are elected by the people, unfettered by special interest groups, will not be able to evaluate (1) as well. In conclusion repressive policy will be generated ‘for equality’ at the expense of freedoms. This process will by induction flow from one level of economy to another, all the way to specific personal freedoms by the regulation of the economy of personality. Everyone is equal, competition is staged (Remember competition is a necessity for innovation, but equality must be at all times maintained), everything is protected from the citizen, even themselves.

Closing remarks:
It becomes evident that the adage that ‘democracy is the tyranny of the majority’ has some semblance of reality. Restated in more specific rhetoric, the previous maxim should read: ‘democracy is the tyranny of the incompetent by the deceitful.’ The only redeeming quality democracy has is that domestic revolutions are usually ended in a bloodless coup.

ps.
If the collective body of the EU can compete with Boeing via the creation of Airbus; why isn’t a composite to Microsoft formed? It’s not like alternate OS generation is impossible, Linus did it

*** (Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications, 3rd ed. By John R. Anderson,
New York: Freeman, 1990; pp 292-297)

Well, see, we have an often ignored Constitution that says that powers not explicitly granted to the federal goverment (Education isn't mentioned in the constitution) are given to the state.

Yes, that's correct.
Yet, the federal government has imposed a very large number of unfunded mandates(read: *the law of the land*) on the States through the No Child Left Behind Act (and other laws), leaving the States to pick up the slack.
In most States, the federal government picks up only a relatively small amount of funding.