Quote Originally Posted by Iris lily View Post
No Child Left Behind doesn't seem to have an end to it. Proposed by GW (for which I could boot him in the behind), supposedly hated by liberals, why is this thing still around? Why hasn't the President dumped it?
9/19/2010
"President Barack Obama is expected on Friday to announce the details of what the White House calla "relief from key provisions of No Child Left Behind."
Some lawmakers have said it would be a mistake for the administration to bypass Congress. This is a particularly sore spot for Republicans, who already bristle at what they see as the executive branch's broader attempts to sidestep their authority on a number of issues by issuing federal regulations.
"It's not just the specifics that worry the Republicans, it's the idea that he doesn't have the authority to change the law," said Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington-based education organization."


http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/1...r-changes.html