Susan Neuman, a professor of education at the University Michigan who served as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education during George W. Bush's first term, was and still is a fervent believer in the goals of NCLB. And she says the President and then Secretary of Education Rod Paige were too. But there were others in the department, according to Neuman, who saw NCLB as a Trojan horse for the choice agenda — a way to expose the failure of public education and "blow it up a bit," she says. "There were a number of people pushing hard for market forces and privatization."
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New class size reports released - showing which schools are complying with
the class size law and which are "exempted"
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Nov. 18. 2025
New class size reports were released yesterday, showing that as of this
fall, DOE achieved the legal goal of 60% of classes in complianc...
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