Paige-Congress Bond Still Weak, Some Say
When Rod Paige came to Washington as secretary of education, he brought with him a long list of credentials as the superintendent of a big-city district and a widely known leader in education. What he didn't bring with him, many people here say, was political know-how, or at least the inside-the-Beltway kind.
Nearly two years into his tenure, politicians, congressional aides, and education analysts are debating whether that shortage of conventional political savvy has actually helped him cut through the insular world of Capitol Hill, or left him floundering among Washington's policymakers.
Some say Mr. Paige started off on the wrong foot with Congress. They say he was shut out of the formation of the administration's major education initiative, the "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001, and never recovered as Congress began to sculpt other measures, including overhauls of special...
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