The Bush Administration Education Initiatives

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Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind Act

President Announces Early Childhood Initiative

In his State of the Union Address, President Bush stressed the need to prepare children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs. These themes built upon the First Lady's Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development, held in July, 2001.

The early childhood initiative announced by President Bush seeks to improve the state of early childhood education, where too many children come to school unprepared to learn. Complete text

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First Lady Briefs House Education Committee on Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers

First Lady Laura Bush visited Capitol Hill on March 14, 2002 to brief Republican and Democratic members of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Committee on her recent White House conference on Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers. Over the next decade, American schools will need more than 2 million new teachers. The bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act, signed into law by President Bush in January, calls for putting a quality teacher in every U.S. classroom by 2002. Complete text

Other News
• President's Remarks at Teacher Quality Conference
• Opening Remarks by Mrs. Bush at Teacher Quality Conference
• President Launches Quality Teacher Initiative
• Radio Address of the President to the Nation on No Child Left Behind
• Fact Sheet: A Quality Teacher in Every Classroom