President Bush and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings introduced the 2008 Teacher of the Year at the White House yesterday. (See photo above.) As usual, the president called on Congress to reauthorize No Child Left Behind. But, he added, “The good news is the act doesn’t go away without reauthorization; it still exists.”
What he didn’t mention was Reading First. Maybe he and his speech writers knew the results of the interim report on the program. You can read about the report’s findings in this news story on edweek.org.
