They all voted for it, but that was then. Democratic presidential candidates came out swinging Monday, not at each other but at the No Child Left Behind law. They spoke at the annual convention of the National Education Association, the nations largest teachers union. Read more of this article from The Washington Post. In a related story, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen argues that it requires more than money to fix our school systems. And the Washington Post's editors have urged Congress to talk about strengthening, not abandoning, the federal school accountability law.
Posted by Steve Groft on 03 July 2007 in Issues in the News , Opinion , Policy