of the NCLB bill.  The state likes the way it handles student performance, but the federal government wants them to calculate student performance in another way.

for special education kids says a new Baltimore Sun report.  They want special education students to have some special standards put on them, not ones forced by the federal government.

is protesting the “No Child Left Behind” rule for testing immigrants.

a Bush administration education official says the NCLB law is beyond repair.  he says that government can’t force states to do things they do not want to do.

on Monday to discuss the NCLB bill. Bush says that he agree to work on addressing some of the major concerns with the bill.

the Secretary Of Education was out at U.S. Chamber of Commerce today to talk about this bill.  The people at CSPAN have video up of her speech and her Q&A session.  I will make some comments on it after I look at it.

Also the people at USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor have up big articles on this bill.