Obama asks Congress to revamp education law by new school year in Sept., but obstacles remain

03-14-2011

Washington Post

President Barack Obama asked Congress on Monday to rewrite the nation’s main education law before the new school year starts in September, setting an ambitious timetable for lawmakers whose primary focus now is on budget cuts and the deficit. He also issued his most detailed outline yet for changes to the No Child Left Behind law. Obama said the law, enacted in 2002 under George W. Bush, got some things right but that it also got some things wrong. “The goals of NCLB were the right goals,” Obama said, mentioning the law’s promises of putting quality teachers in every classroom, establishing higher standards for learning, requiring accountability and highlighting achievement gaps among students. “That’s the right thing to do,” he said at an Arlington, Va., middle school. “But what hasn’t worked is denying teachers, schools and states what they need to meet these goals.” That’s why the law needs to be rewritten, he said. (more...)

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