Key parts of schools law to end
Obama team sees flaws in Bush-era plan, alters rules
WASHINGTON - President Obama is poised to broaden federal influence in schools by scrapping key elements of No Child Left Behind, the George W. Bush administration’s signature education law, and substituting his own brand of school reform.
While unpopular with Republicans in Congress and some in the educational establishment, the move is drawing applause from governors struggling to meet the demands of the nine-year-old law.
Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan are scheduled tomorrow to detail plans to waive some of the law’s toughest requirements, including the goal that every student be proficient in math and reading by 2014, or their schools could
