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The Bush Administration Education InitiativesThe No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is the most sweeping reform of U.S. elementary and secondary education since 1965.
President Announces Early Childhood Initiative
In his State of the Union Address, President Bush stressed the need to prepare children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs. These themes built upon the First Lady's Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development, held in July, 2001.
See also: President's remarks First Lady Briefs House Education Committee on Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers First Lady Laura Bush visited Capitol Hill on March 14, 2002 to brief Republican and Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Committee on her recent White House conference on Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers. Over the next decade, American schools will need more than 2 million new teachers. The bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law by President Bush in January, calls for putting a quality teacher in every U.S. classroom by 2002. Complete text
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