No Child Left Behind Policies to Get Renewed Scrutiny
By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 7, 2008
Reshaping the federal role in America's classrooms won't be the first priority for a new leader faced with economic crisis and war. But President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to fix "the broken promises of No Child Left Behind."
Those fixes to the landmark 2002 law enacted under President Bush will affect millions of students and teachers. Efforts in Congress to reauthorize No Child Left Behind had stalled in the past year as lawmakers waited for a new president. That left education advocates with a long to-do list. So as Obama selects an education secretary and crafts his priorities, plenty of people are lining up to make sure their groups -- or at least their ideas -- have influence with the incoming administration.
"This is an incredible opportunity to begin to correct the failed education policies of the Bush administration and prepare our students to compete in a 21st century economy," National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel said after Obama's election.
The teachers union leader added a pitch for more federal dollars for schools: "Obama has said that a cornerstone of any long-term economic plan must be an investment in quality public schools," he said.
(More here.)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 7, 2008
Reshaping the federal role in America's classrooms won't be the first priority for a new leader faced with economic crisis and war. But President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to fix "the broken promises of No Child Left Behind."
Those fixes to the landmark 2002 law enacted under President Bush will affect millions of students and teachers. Efforts in Congress to reauthorize No Child Left Behind had stalled in the past year as lawmakers waited for a new president. That left education advocates with a long to-do list. So as Obama selects an education secretary and crafts his priorities, plenty of people are lining up to make sure their groups -- or at least their ideas -- have influence with the incoming administration.
"This is an incredible opportunity to begin to correct the failed education policies of the Bush administration and prepare our students to compete in a 21st century economy," National Education Association president Dennis Van Roekel said after Obama's election.
The teachers union leader added a pitch for more federal dollars for schools: "Obama has said that a cornerstone of any long-term economic plan must be an investment in quality public schools," he said.
(More here.)
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