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Associations educate Congress on No Child Left Behind

Business groups weigh in on school policy out of fears U.S. education system not preparing students for workforce of the future Woodside The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has little in common with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, but a heated national debate about standardized testing in public schools has turned the two into strange bedfellows. Chamber CEO Tom Donohue and Leadership Conference President Wade Henderson jointly penned an April 7 op-ed in The Washington Post urging lawmakers to reauthorize No Child Left Behind with its annual testing and school assessment requirements largely intact. The opinion column signified a rare pairing between… Read More