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Hoping to present a united front of moderates, the centrist Republican Main Street Partnership brought together four education leaders last week to discuss the upcoming Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization.

Rep. Bill Goodling, the Pennsylvania Republican who chairs the House Education and the Workforce Committee, and Rep. Michael N. Castle, R-Del., the K-12 subcommittee chairman, hosted an amicable exchange with Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley and Bob Chase, the president of the National Education Association. The participants answered the question posed, "Can there be a bipartisan education agenda in the 106th Congress?"...

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