Bush Pushing "Quiet," Bipartisan Education Reform Efforts

In a piece for Time (12/16), Andrew J. Rotherham writes that "George W. Bush is writing a sequel to his big education act," noting that he is "quietly pushing new education-reform initiatives aimed at improving and empowering school principals, who too often lack the training or authority to effectively run their schools. And once again, he's approaching this massive education problem by blurring political lines." He writes that a recent New York City meeting of "advisers he had assembled to guide the George W. Bush Institute's education work" was mostly made up of Democrats, adding that Bush "has already recruited officials from his administration as well as liberal stalwarts like Amy Wilkins of the Education Trust and Democratic education leaders like former North Carolina Governor James Hunt."