Secretary Spellings – the ace in Bush's hand
Illustration by Samuel whitehead.
This from Education Next, a blog of the Hoover Institute @ Stanford
It’s the final round for President Bush. He’s a lame duck president with diluted power; Democrats control the U.S. House and Senate; and he’s burned up much of his political capital with lawmakers wrangling over the war in Iraq. But his education agenda is still very much in play.
Although prominent members of both political parties have taken a dislike to the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Bush still hopes to reauthorize the law before he leaves office.
Bush has one ace in his hand when it comes to NCLB: his secretary of education, Margaret Spellings.
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