A Crack in the Dam

We posted yesterday about the snowballing of state opposition to Bush's "No Child Left Behind." But it is a campaign year, ain't it? This morning here comes the first clearest evidence anyone would ever need that the word is going out from the Bush Department of Education that the harsh rules and consequences written into "No Child Left Behind" are about to be bent or even broken to stem the tide of Republican defections in all those state legislatures.