Miller faces fights everywhere over education bill

 Rep. George Miller (D-CA) has never been one to back away from a brawl—he once warned an adversary that if he wanted to fight, it was going to take a while, so he’d better bring lunch. But as Miller pushes to renew the landmark education law known as No Child Left Behind, he faces so many fights that the fate of the bill is increasingly in doubt. As chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Miller is sparring with Republicans who see his proposed changes as an unacceptable watering down of the law’s core standards. Teachers object to his proposal to link pay to performance. Even his fellow Democrats are giving him a hard time, largely for not doing enough to soften the law’s most rigid requirements. Read the article in The Los Angeles Times online.