No Child Left Behind legislation bogs down

 As they sat in the Oval Office one day in January this year, President Bush and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) put their differences over the Iraq war behind them and focused again on ways to reshape the nation’s education system. “We“re going to get moving on this, right Ted?” Bush asked. Yes, Mr. President, Kennedy said. He could pass it by March. Ten months later, the optimism has vanished and the campaign to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind law has bogged down. Not only has it not passed, but no legislation has been introduced. In an interview last week, Kennedy said it will not happen this year after all. “It’s going to tip over to next year,” he said, right into the teeth of a presidential campaign with candidates on both sides denouncing the program. Read the article in The Boston Globe.