Wisconsin’s “Highly Qualified Teachers” Produce Successful Students

Cory Liebmann at One Wisconsin Now has a great post concerning the crazy ESEA (NCLB) requirements regarding "qualified" teachers and support staff.
Wisconsin has been in the top two in ACT scores for the past 17 years. Would this have been possible if we did not have a qualified educational community?
The tail (Federal govt.) is really waging the dog here in that federal funds provide such a small amount of the total amount of funds that go to public schools. It would be nice if the feds would really believe in the local control that they at one time tirelessly advocated.
Read more here.