“Civil rights groups have begun a welcome attack on a House bill that would temporarily exempt the states from the all-important accountability requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act,” editorializes the New York Times this morning. The attack, led by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, was unexpected notes the paper, ”given that the nation’s two big teachers’ unions actually hold seats on the conference’s executive committee.”
“Recent events suggest that the civil rights establishment generally is ready to break with the teachers’ unions and take an independent stand on education reform,” the paper notes, viewing ed reform as a civil rights issue.
