Education’s Duncan Working With Boehner on ‘No Child’
November 16, 2010, 5:35 PM ESTBy John Lauerman
(Updates with comments from Duncan about teachers’ salaries in the seventh and eighth paragraphs.)
Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he is working with Representative John Boehner, leader of the House Republicans, on changes to the “No Child Left Behind” law for schools that was passed during former President George W. Bush’s administration.
Duncan has talked with Boehner on education issues including altering the law, which affects kindergarten through 12th-grade schools, the education secretary said today in Washington at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council. Boehner, from Ohio, is expected to become speaker of the House after Republicans take control in January.
The 2002 act, which requires states to measure student achievement with standardized tests, contains perverse incentives and fails to reward states and school systems for successes, Duncan said. The secretary said he is working to change the law with House Republicans including
