Fresh Effort Expected From White House
By Alyson Klein
(From Education Week, January 18th, 2011)
A prominent and sustained White House push for renewal of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act–which is widely expected to be part of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address next week–is viewed as crucial to prospects for the 9-year-old law’s reauthorization by a now-divided Congress.
The law’s current version, the No Child Left Behind Act, was President George W. Bush’s signature domestic achievement when it was passed in late 2001 with big, bipartisan majorities. Now it is considered outdated by practitioners and policymakers from all parts of the political spectrum.
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