United States President Barack Obama has sent the US Congress a blue print which he intends to use to help fix the problems he sees in the nation’s education policy and those in his administration are hoping that the problems faced can be overcome, pointing out that they believe many had come up during the time that former president George W Bush was in office, due to his No Child Left Behind law that created dramatic changes in a huge number of US public schools. With 8 years of that law being in effect, Obama’s advocates say that it has created a lot of ruin in the US public school system, leading to lower test scores in many cases. The new changes, if they are allowed to become law, will try to get states to raise their standards for academics to help things flow more smoothly and hopefully use a significant amount of schools that are well managed to help determine what could be done to turn around schools that are not performing well,
Obama has long faced considerable opposition for nearly anything he brings before law makers on the opposite side of the political spectrum, say US political pundits, so it should come as no surprise the President now faces great challenges trying to get his new educational measures into law. Since the law will try to grant states more power to evaluate the teachers and principals of school systems, it is facing heavy opposition from teachers unions across the US that do not wish to be judged based on performance based results which they say are too narrow of a way to judge schools.
