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Enacted under President George W. Bush's administration with the promise to focus on individual student achievement and overall school performance, No Child Left Behind was heralded as groundbreaking. And in some ways, it was.

The No Child Left Behind Act will be one of President Bush's enduring legacies. And it was engineered and inaugurated with a truly bipartisan coalition in Congress. Accountability, standards, and truly measuring student performance just makes sense. The only real debate about the law was and is whether or not it was adequately funded.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education.

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that, but Congress did not provide the money to attract and hire the best teachers.

Education is a fundamental principle of what made America a success. We can't afford to throw any young people away.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.

If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.