NCLB Reauthorization Hearing Tackles Flexibility, Standards
The key House subcommittee studying the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act held its first field hearing here this week in what is normally a federal courtroom.
The setting was perhaps fitting for a federal education law that, in the minds of many Americans, is still on trial. But while there is no shortage of critics of the Bush administration’s signature K-12 education achievement, they were apparently not invited to this particular hearing on Aug. 28.
“The No Child Left Behind Act is a critical piece of education legislation that is helping to close the achievement gap between disadvantaged students and their more affluent peers,” Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., a former school board member in suburban DuPage County, said...
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