The headline says, “Obama eyes sweeping overhaul of education,” but the article says that Obama’s education plan will mostly add to No Child Left Behind, an actual overhaul of education implemented by the evil Bush administration.
But in a departure from many policy reforms introduced by the new administration, Obama does not scrap the keystone school reform introduced by the George W. Bush administration, the No Child Left Behind program.
Instead, Obama seeks to “augment” Bush’s education plan by imposing tougher but voluntary standards, along with the needed funding to implement his reforms.
By the way, voluntary standards are hardly tougher. After all, if the standards are too tough, you can opt out of using them.
