When Presidents Focus on Education, States Focus on ImplementationNow that President Obama has outlined his education policy, New Jersey and other states await the details
The day after President Obama made education a central theme of his State of the Union address, lawmakers started talking the details of what federal rules will affect states like New Jersey in the coming years.
Topic A is the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, the federal law that in the last decade virtually remade testing and accountability in schools nationwide.
And in an unusual press call, top federal officials and legislators from both parties yesterday made clear their focus was more on "fixing" the law rather than starting over.
The testing that was a hallmark of the federal law is not going away, for instance, but instead they said changes would be coming in how the required exams would be administered and utilized, and