Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy co-sponsored the No Child Left Behind legislation, which passed in January 2002 with overwhelming bipartisan support. Almost immediately after the law was enacted, educators, families, and lawmakers across the country experienced an extreme case of buyer's remorse.
President Bush promised a world of funding for America's new public school "gap-closing" initiative, and then promptly failed to put the government money where his mouth was. No Child Left Behind's under-funded mandates left states and schools straitjacketed. However,...
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