New U.S. Secretary Showing Flexibility on 'No Child' Act

[Rose Siding]

Less than a month after taking office, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings has shown a willingness to work with state and local officials on what they consider to be some of the toughest requirements of President Bush's signature education law, No Child Left Behind.

In her first few days, the Education Department has ended simmering disputes with two states, in one case resolving an uproar in North Dakota by approving the qualifications of 4,000 teachers who believed federal officials had previously declared them insufficiently qualified.

In another case, Ms. Spellings said that school districts need not always allow students in low-performing schools to transfer to better ones if it caused overcrowding, an issue important to New York.

"They did a complete about-face," said Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, who with his state's governor had requested that the department reconsider its ruling on teacher qualifications.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/politics/14educ.html?

[rodeodance]

1. "These are Republicans," she said. "These are our people."......

good god, does she know what she is saying? would she go if a Dem requested her?

....."But we have great hope with Spellings's appointment," she said. "I'm hopeful that she'll come to Utah and say, 'You've got everything in place,' and then set us a little more freedom."

Ms. Spellings said Senator Orrin G. Hatch had invited her to Utah and she expressed eagerness to visit there. "These are Republicans," she said. "These are our people."......

[burn the bush]

2. they had to lower the qualifications coz the bush daugher couldn't get a

teaching position.

[area51]

3. "No Child Left Behind" Act

With this nazi administration, it should be called the "No Child Left Alive" Act.

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"Prosperity is just around the corner." -- Herbert Hoover
"The economy has turned a corner." -- GW Bush

Herbert Hoover = GW Bush

Neither man cared about the Depression their economic policies created.