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"Is our children learning?" George W. Bush

This page contains links only from 2004 or earlier.

• Bush Education Policy
• Real Help for Real Children
• Legislation
  • Details
  • Political battle
• Funding
• School Vouchers
• Rod Paige, Secretary of Education (separate page)

Bush Education Policy

• Some School Districts Challenge Bush's Signature Education Law
  Sam Dillon, New York Times, 2 January 2004
• Bush's Plan for Head Start Worries Supporters
  Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 12 February 2003
• Now, the Pressure Begins for Bush's Reading Expert
  Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 19 January 2002
• President Bush Plays Scrooge to Our Nation's Schoolchildren
  Barbara Miner, St Paul Pioneer Press (in CommonDreams), 23 December 2001
• White House Ignores Preschool as Solution to Improve Education
  Rebecca Winters, Time, 3 August 2001
• Bush Wants Unhealthy Cuts for Head Start
  editorial, New York Times, 23 July 2001

Real Help for Real Children

• Investing in poor schools key, expert says
  Debera Carlton Harrell, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 12 November 2001
• Build children before missiles
  DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, 29 May 2001
• Paddling Foes Get Change in Amendment on Liability
  Jodi Wilgoren, New York Times, 11 May 2001
• The President who used to care about education
  Karen Tumulty, Douglas Waller, and Jodie Morse, Time Magazine, 9 April 2001

Legislation

• Details
  • Congress Reaches Compromise on Education Bill
    Adam Clymer with Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 12 December 2001
  • Congress may adopt less punitive plan for school accountability
    Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 10 August 2001
  • Bush Seems to Ease His Stance on Schools' Accountability
    Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 10 July 2001
• Political Battle
  • Back to School
    Senator Jim Jeffords, New York Times, 13 December 2001
  • White House Confronts Efforts to Modify Bush's Education Bill
    David E. Sanger, New York Times, 22 May 2001
  • House Republicans Present a School Bill Mirroring Bush's Plan
    Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 23 March 2001

Funding for Education

• Bush Seeking to Squeeze School Loan Program
  Philip Shenon, New York Times, 28 April 2002
• Democrats: Bush's Education Budget Is Less Than Promised
  Robert Pear, New York Times, 13 February 2002
• Lawmakers Break an Impasse on Education
  Lizette Alvarez, New York Times , 28 November 2001
• Education Bill May Omit Its Provision on Boy Scouts
  Edward Wyatt, New York Times, 17 June 2001
• Education on Ice
  Gail Collins, New York Times, 18 May 2001
• Democrats Say Bush Exaggerates Increase in Education Spending
  Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 14 April 2001

School Vouchers

• Cleveland Case Poses New Test for Vouchers
  Jacques Steinberg, New York Times, 9 February 2002
• Voucher Study Indicates No Steady Gains in Learning
  Diana Jean Schemo, New York Times, 9 December 2001
• White House Asks Justices for a Ruling on Vouchers
  Linda Greenhouse, New York Times, 8 July 2001
• Senate says 'no' to voucher pilot program
  Ian Christopher McCaleb, CNN, 12 June 2001
• Senate Defeats Bill to Fund Vouchers for Private Schools
  Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 12 June 2001
• How tax breaks for tuition masquerade as school reform
  editorial, USA Today, 4 June 2001
• House approves education plan without vouchers
  USA Today, 23 May 2001
• Findings that support vouchers are flawed
  Richard Rothstein, New York Times, 9 May 2001
• Bush pushes for school vouchers
  Ian Christopher McCaleb, CNN, 12 April 2001

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