Weekly Address: Congress Should Reform No Child Left Behind This Year
WASHINGTON – In his weekly address, President Obama praised the progress that schools like Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis have made, and he called on Congress to fix No Child Left Behind this year. To strengthen education in this country, we need to encourage reforms not driven by Washington, but by principals and parents so schools can determine what is best for their kids. And that is why it is so important that Congress replace No Child Left Behind this year, so that schools have that flexibility. Reform just cannot wait.
The audio of the address is and video of the address will be available online at www.whitehouse.gov at 6:00 a.m. ET, Saturday, May 21, 2011.
Remarks of President Barack Obama
As Prepared for Delivery
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Washington, DC
This week, I went to Memphis, Tennessee, where I spoke to the graduating class of Booker T. Washington High