Partisan Tensions Flare Up in 'Ed-Flex' Debate
House and Senate lawmakers are set to reconcile differences over the first education bill to see action in the 106th Congress, but a Senate GOP amendment that strikes at one of President Clinton's top priorities has raised the stakes considerably.
A bill that by most accounts is relatively modest in scope, the Education Flexibility Partnership Act, or "Ed-Flex," has ignited a political struggle that may prove a harbinger of wide partisan divisions in store for Congress' reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act later this year.
"This is posturing for who is the best education party," said Arnold F. Fege, the president of the Washington-based nonprofit consulting firm, Public Advocacy for Kids. He added that given the protracted debate expected over the ESEA, "Ed-Flex potentially becomes the only education bill" to...
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