JENNIFER C. KERR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress is pressing ahead with efforts to update the much-criticized No Child Left Behind education law.
A group of lawmakers is meeting to iron out differences between education bills passed by the House and Senate in July, years after the Bush-era law was supposed to be reauthorized.
Lawmakers have made some progress since then, developing a framework that keeps No Child’s requirement for annual testing in reading and math in grades three through eight. But the framework sharply reduces the federal role in education policy, even as it requires states to intervene to help struggling schools and give all children the opportunity for a quality education.