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...Federal Government funding because they have large numbers of low-income students, students can transfer to another school or receive free tutoring if their school fails for two years in a row to improve its test scores. Bush's education bill won bipartisan praise 20 months ago, but now Democrats and some congressional Republicans, state governments, school superintendents, principals and teachers are sharply attacking No Child Left Behind. Illinois Senator Richard Durbin, a Democrat who voted for the law, last week called for a suspension of the act's provisions until Bush provides more money...
...polls offering much good news for Team Schwarzenegger. Two statewide polls last week showed the actor lagging behind Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, the leading Democrat in the race to replace Governor Gray Davis, should he be ousted. And Davis seems positively resurgent. The polls also show conservative state senator Tom McClintock gaining, which is not exactly an inducement for Schwarzenegger's chief Republican rival to bow out and allow the party to unify behind the movie star. McClintock tells TIME there is "no scenario" in which he would get out and that if Schwarzenegger's campaign "spent a fraction...
Instead, Dean’s success in Iowa and elsewhere can be attributed to his unswerving criticism of the Bush Administration’s budgetary irresponsibility. He is the only Democrat who has offered a compelling alternative to the Bush “tax cuts at any cost,” credit card, fiscal policy. Dean has unabashedly committed to repealing the Bush tax cuts, allowing him to implement the centerpiece of his vision of progressive government: universal health care, a goal supported by 60% of all Americans...
Ultimately, it is unfortunate that several Democratic candidates are perpetuating the caricature of Dean as an out-of-touch Northeastern liberal Democrat. Dean’s ability to appeal to a large fraction of the electorate...
...Hill, the topic is a source of mounting tension in the House Intelligence Committee, which some observers say has lagged behind its less-partisan Senate counterpart in probing the administration's handling of pre-war intelligence on Iraq. According to a knowledgeable source, a closed hearing last week saw Democratic congressman Silvestre Reyes read into the record a secret memo he'd sent Republican chairman Porter Goss and ranking Democrat Jane Harman last February - more than a month before the war. Reyes, who through an aide declined to comment, raised concern in the memo that the panel might have either...