As 2 Bushes Try to Fix Schools, Tools Differ

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Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida has long played the dutiful younger brother.

Well before President Bush signed his No Child Left Behind law, Jeb Bush poured his own ideas into a school improvement program for Florida.

Over the years since, Governor Bush has mostly held his tongue about the president’s very different law, even as detractors of all stripes have attacked it.

But in recent weeks — perhaps seeking to cement his legacy as a school-policy expert as he prepares to leave office — Governor Bush has been speaking out about the federal law, mixing dollops of praise with measured criticisms — and taking an occasional potshot. He has been caustic, for instance, about the requirement that 100 percent of the nation’s students be proficient in reading and math by 2014.


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Still, this is more than a brotherly squabble, as Governor Bush’s comments could well provide the president’s opponents with ammunition against his signature law.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/education/28child.html?hp&ex=1159416000&en=5efba419559195e9&ei=5094&partner=homepage