A Flaw in NCLB Is Acknowledged by Spellings

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is traveling the country to promote what she and others, certainly, view as the success of the No Child Left Behind Act. But in a visit to Topeka, Kan., last week, she acknowledged that one of the federal education law’s provisions was flawed.

The requirement that states identify “persistently dangerous schools” hasn’t worked well, Ms. Spellings said in a roundtable discussion with educators, business...