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President Bush Discusses No Child Left Behind - January 8, 2009
President Bush Discusses No Child Left Behind - January 8, 2009
President Bush on Thursday said, "...I've come to herald the success of a good piece of legislation. I have come to talk to our citizens about the results that this reform has yielded. And I call upon those who can determine the fate of No Child Left Behind in the future to stay strong in the ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org — As of January 1, households earning at least $12,500 a year will be eligible for the Child... Tax Credit. And one proposal that seems to be in the Obama team’s plan for economic stimulus is to lower that threshold to $3,000. That would offer about ... (more) Child Tax Credit
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Bush: I liberated America’s school children.
Think Progress — ... ” by taking military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the populations of those two foreign countries aren’t the only people that Bush claims to have liberated. In his last policy speech as President, Bush said today that No Child Left Behind has led to the “liberation” of America’s school children: ...

The Rude Pundit — ... That's President George W. Bush, looking nervous while surrounded by children's books yesterday at an elementary school in Philadelphia. ...

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