What's More Important in Education, The Bureaucracy, or the Pupils?

Part of the "No Child Left Behind" act permits kids who would otherwise be forced to attend failing schools to escape to better schools. Educrats don't like that.

"School officials would have preferred a less-disruptive option to help the students: tutoring."

But, they say they can't do that because the federal government won't pay for it.

Excuse me but, what prevents a school district from instituting tutoring on it's own dime? The whole point of the law is to encourage innovation. School districts have boatloads of money - they get something like $200,000 per classroom after all.