By SAM DILLON
c.2010 New York Times News Service
The Obama administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of President George W. Bush’s signature education law, No Child Left Behind, and will call for broad changes in how schools are judged to be succeeding or failing, as well as for the elimination of the law’s 2014 deadline for bringing every American child to academic proficiency.
Educators briefed by administration officials said the proposals for changes in the main law governing the federal role in public schools would eliminate or rework many of the provisions that teachers unions, associations of principals, school boards and other groups have found most objectionable.
Yet the administration is not planning to abandon the law’s commitment to imposing higher standards, encouraging teacher quality and closing the achievement gap between minority and white students.