Sam Dillon writes in today's NY Times about the outlook for reauthorizing/rewriting No Child Left Behind. In a nutshell, experts say it'd be a heavy lift to get it done this year. Still, Sec. Arne Duncan/the admin & lawmakers are apparently starting to move on it. According to the story:
Mr. Duncan said in an interview on Thursday that key lawmakers "share our sense of urgency" about the need for an immediate rewrite, and were already pitching in.
The piece??goes on to explain that Duncan and more than a dozen admin officials met with top Democrats and Republicans of the House and Senate education panels last week to discuss a re-write.
And yes, the article cites Checker on the matter, quoting from both a live interview and a Flypaper post he wrote on Thursday. In the post Checker wrote, "One can only wish them well, but re-working this monstrously complex statute is apt to prove almost as challenging as health care."
--Amy Fagan