Topic: Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Legislation that would overhaul the controversial U.S. education law known as No Child Left Behind cleared a major hurdle on Monday when Senate leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on the bill.The law, which went into effect in 2002, has ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday announced steps to roll back key provisions of "No Child Left Behind," calling the decade-old U.S. education law admirable but flawed.The law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, was intended to hold ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will provide qualifying states a waiver from No Child Left Behind after Congressional inaction on reforming the program, the Department of Education said on Monday.President Barack Obama had called for reform to the federal education law ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The nation's largest teachers union voted on Monday to recommend that President Barack Obama be elected for another term.The vote from National Education Association delegates at a meeting in Chicago was 72.03 percent, a bit down from the last ...
Include educators in policy talks, she urgesWASHINGTON - Since being named Nevada's Teacher of the Year in December, Cheryl Macy has been thrust into the spotlight on education policy.But never so much as this week, joining her counterparts from every U.S. state ...
One day after his arrest at a protest near the steps of the US Congress, Washington DC mayor Vincent Gray on Tuesday decried the capital city's role as a "political pawn" in recent federal budget negotiations."We think we were a bargaining chip ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Young voters, who were crucial to President Barack Obama's election in 2008, have not soured on him and now support the Democrat in greater numbers than in the fall, according to a Harvard University poll.The survey also showed that ...
It's been a month since the horrific shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and 13 wounded. Among the injured was Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head but is recovering.The shooting's youngest victim was 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden called on Tuesday for a nation-wide effort to make the United States the world leader in college completion by 2020, offering a "College Completion Tool Kit" to help.The kit features seven of what President Barack ...
ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on Congress on Monday to overhaul his Republican predecessor's signature "No Child Left Behind" education law before the next school year begins in September.Former President George W. Bush pushed for "No Child," enacted in ...
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