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Chairman Miller Statement on Bush Administration’s Regulations on No Child Left Behind

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

 

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, today issued the following statement on new regulations for the No Child Left Behind Act released by the U.S. Department of Education.

"Some of these regulations are steps in the right direction; but others will do little to change the criticism facing NCLB .  It is troubling that the Bush administration has waited until the last possible minute to address some of the serious concerns with No Child Left Behind, in particular the lack of uniformity across the states when calculating their high school graduation rates.  No Child Left Behind law is in need of significant and fundamental improvements - so that every child has the opportunity to get a world class public education. I look forward to working with the next administration to make the law more fair, more flexible and better funded.” 

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