Obama’s Education Hopes
Barack Obama has promised the world to every special interest group in the US, and now they’re going to want to collect. One area where the promises have been especially extravagant: Experts Say Obama Must Build a Bipartisan Machine to Move Education Law.
President-elect Barack Obama has made big promises to educators, parents and the nation’s nearly 50 million public school students. He vowed to recruit an “army of new teachers,” create better tests and give public schools more funding. He also said he would make college more affordable.
As the new administration prepares to take over the Education Department, school experts say one of Obama’s first — and toughest — jobs must be restoring the broad bipartisan support it took to pass the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act, which aims to boost the achievement of poor children. That consensus has splintered, with people on both sides of the aisle souring on the law as it is overdue for reauthorization in Congress.
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