The US Environmental Protection Agency has been criticized by environmentalists as being too business-friendly, but recent statements from the agency on climate change suggest it's warming up to environmentalist views. The US Climate Change Science Program, a government agency, also seems to feel to speak its mind.
Pew is also as balanced as you'll get on global warming, although at the end of the day they lean more left than right.
Education policy is based on achievement. After all, if students aren't learning, why teach? Educators and lawmakers look at achievement from two angles: how well are American students doing overall – and how successfully are our schools shrinking the gap between minority and non-minority achievement and between lower and higher income groups).
No Child Left Behind (NCLB), today's version of the federal government's funding program for public schools, is up for renewal in 2007. Seen as President Bush’s signature education policy, NCLB, which aims to insure all students are 100% proficient in reading, writing and math by 2014, has had mixed results when it's come to testing time. The law has also earned itself a legion of critics who say it sets demands too high and funds too low.
See something to change or add - that would make this page more clear, balanced or fact-based? Click on the edit tab! Please also leave a note in "log message" (at the bottom of the edit page) so we know what changes you made. If they look good, we'll okay them. (For our editing credo, see our style guide.) Thanks!
cJ's Capitol Hill Update
Get the scoop on what Congress is voting on each week!
