NCLB: Duncan Slowly Learning The Hill
A little over a week ago Secretary Duncan met with the big eight House and Senate chairman with jurisdiction over K12 education issues and came away feeling like there was agreement on moving a speedy, bipartisan reauthorization of NCLB.
"For me, the meeting was a home run," said Duncan in this new National Journal interview. "What you had was the Big Eight all say, let's do it, let's do it together, and let's try and work on it now."
Welcome to Washington, Arne. The real Washington, that is. That was then, this is now. Even on the 20th they probably weren't as enthusiastic as they seemed to you, or as you wanted us to believe. As I've been saying for weeks now and the Times finally confirmed today (see morning news roundup), NCLB's not happening anytime soon.
At least he didn't say "the meeting was a slam dunk". Sigh.
I always look forward to your DuncWatch -
Posted by: CJ | January 29, 2010 at 16:44 PM