The Agenda of Carol Moseley Braun  Politics and policy. July 15
2003 6:01 PM  The Agenda of Carol Moseley Braun  What she'd do
as president.  Carol Moseley Braun   1. Centralize education
funding and rescind national testing standards. Braun proposes
to stop funding public schools through local property taxes and
start funding them primarily through a federal tax. The idea is
to equalize the amount of money schools receive so poorer
districts are no longer neglected. She opposes the mandatory
standardized testing system President Bush and Congress recently
imposed on public schools, and she would no doubt try to revise
it, though she has not specified how. She would probably limit
school choice as well, though she hasn't clarified how far she
would go to stop voucher programs.  2. "Rediscover the
Constitution." Of all the candidates, Braun is perhaps the most
scrupulously attentive to civil liberties and the rule of law.
She is the most consistently outspoken opponent of the U.S.A.
Patriot Act, which she prom