No-Child Law Is a Highlight of Hearing on Education (New York Times)
WASHINGTON Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is presiding over the rollout of the largest competitive grant program in his departments history, a vast expansion of the governments direct loan program for college students and sweeping new expenditures on failing schools, teacher quality and other big initiatives.
Everyone agrees it is a hugely ambitious agenda.
So it was not surprising that the first question Mr. Duncan faced from lawmakers on Wednesday in an appearance before Congress was whether the Obama administration would also would try this year to rewrite, or reauthorize, the main law on federal policy on public schools, No Child Left Behind.
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