Spellings defends No Child until the end

 Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is looking at the bright side where she can find it in the last year of the Bush administration. A Bush loyalist to the end, she’s planning to stay on until January, she said in an interview with Newsweek. But she worries about the future of No Child Left Behind, the administration’s signature education initiative.

“The loopholes will get larger,” Spellings predicts. “States will game the system as best they can in order to get out of doing what they should do to close the achievement gap. No Child Left Behind turned up the heat. And not everyone is comfortable with that.” Read more in Newseek online.