WASHINGTON -- With the nation's public schools engaged in traditional September openings, President Bush hit the road this week to tout his education record despite sharp jabs that his administration is shortchanging students and parents.
In two appearances, in Nashville, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla., as well as in his weekly radio address, the president said the No Child Left Behind Act that he worked on with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., among others, has made the nation's classrooms more accountable and provided students with options for avoiding schools that perform poorly.
In Nashville on Monday, Bush noted that the education reform law, which became the first major piece of legislation to merit his signature when it arrived at the Oval Office on Jan. 8, 2002, required each state to devise a system for measuring educational progress to determine if goals are being met. Lagging schools are in line to receive federal support to bring them up to standards.
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