New 'No Child' Legislation Faces Uphill Battle
October 19, 2011 RSS Feed PrintAfter months of pleading from President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Senate Democrats and Republicans appear to be willing to work together to revise No Child Left Behind, the comprehensive public education law that was enacted in early 2002.
The administration has begun granting waivers to states to allow them to opt out of parts of the law that require students to reach certain benchmarks in math and reading. This summer, Duncan called the law a "slow-motion train wreck." But a bipartisan group of senators has agreed to start working on the