Rep. Roy Blunt is supporting fundamental changes to the nation's sweeping education law "No Child Left Behind" even though he voted for the original version back in 2001.
From ABC News . . . "Lawmakers say a major flaw is that schools that miss achievement targets by a little are treated the same way as schools that miss those goals by a lot. Schools then are labeled as needing improvement and face the same penalties."
The idea behind a revised version of the bill is to soften up the hard deadlines that schools face.
House Republican Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri is supporting the conservatives' bill, even though he voted for the law in 2001.
"The overriding intrusion in No Child Left Behind is too large to deal with unless you fundamentally change the legislation," Blunt said.
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