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Poll: Is ESEA More Likely to Happen With GOP in Control? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Poll: Is ESEA More Likely to Happen With GOP in Control? - Politics K-12 - Education Week

Poll: Is ESEA More Likely to Happen With GOP in Control?

This was supposed to be the year in which Congress finally reauthorized the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002, which was supposed to be rewritten back in 2007. Almost everyone sees problems with the current law, but so far, there hasn't even been a formal bill introduced remaking it. (Just a doomed discussion draft, introduced by Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., back in 2007.)

Now it looks like Republicans are going to take the House of Representatives and maybe even the Senate. And the question is...might they be able to work with the Obama administration to get ESEA done before the