Obama Presses Congress on Rewriting Education Law

WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama is making fresh
arguments for a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law while
paying tribute to student finalists in a special science
competition.

A day after Obama gave a speech urging Congress to act on an
overhaul of the leading federal law on educational standards, he’s
doing interviews from the White House with broadcast stations in
Albuquerque, N.M., Pittsburgh and Hampton Roads, Va. The president
on Monday told a middle-school audience in Virginia that he wants
legislative action on the No Child Left Behind law before the start
of another school year this fall.

Later Tuesday, he’ll meet privately with Vice President Joe
Biden and Defense Secretary Robert Gates and then host a dinner
with first lady Michelle Obama for U.S. military commanders.