ESEA, Minus Vouchers, Easily Passes House
On a day when party labels had the other chamber in turmoil, a
surprisingly unified House overwhelmingly passed a version of President
Bush's education reform plan last week that would for the first time
tie federal aid to school performance on annual math and reading
tests.
After knocking down an effort to reinsert federally financed vouchers for private schools and squelching another amendment that would have purged the bill of the testing requirement, the House voted 384-45 for HR 1, which would reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The Senate, which had been scheduled to continue what has been a slow process of amending its own version of the ESEA, instead spent the week passing a $1.35 trillion tax cut bill onstage and buzzing offstage about the shift in party control touched off by Republican-turned-Independent Sen. James...
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