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DiIulio's departure would be less significant if the only other Democrat with a high-ranking White House job weren't following him out the door. Not only is Sandy Kress a Democrat, but he's also the lead negotiator and chief policymaker for Bush's education-reform plan. Together with his faith-based initiative, education reform undergirded Bush's claim to be a compassionate conservative. Like DiIulio, Kress was chosen because Bush hoped his Democratic credentials would attract bipartisan support. In Kress's case, it worked. But after the education-reform bill clears Congress, expected next month, Kress will...
...fallout from such mixed messages - and from potential headlines of widespread school failure - is not lost on the White House and its chief negotiator on the education bills, Dallas lawyer Sandy Kress. "We need to find a system where it's not statistical noise or zig-zags in performance that drives classification," he says. Kress and his Congressional counterparts have feverishly been devising just such a system that, he suggests, might end up looking something like the Texas testing model that Bush campaigned on, which set much more modest goals for students. "We need...
...system, scrapping the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and encouraging NATO expansion to Russia's borders, Vladimir Putin has every reason to be delighted with the U.S. President. The Russian leader now has all the excuses he needs to justify meeting the demands of his generals for increased military funding. RALPH KRESS La Mesa, Calif...
...income students would be separately tallied and would also have to rise-but states could determine on their own what "adequate yearly progress" is. Yet even with this flexibility many are worried that too many of the nation's schools would be identified as failures. Says Sandy Kress, Bush's top education advisor: under the House bill "virtually a hundred percent of the schools will be labeled low performing...
Instead, Bush personally has had relatively little direct contact with lawmakers on the issue since inviting key players to the White House in the opening days of his administration (and bestowing nicknames upon them). He has left it to part-time adviser Sandy Kress to steer his program through Congress, where, Kress says, "We have been, are and would like to remain in the middle...