Novick wants repeal of law

Democratic Senate candidate Steve Novick called for the repeal of No Child Left Behind Tuesday, marking the six year anniversary of the controversial bill that sought to raise school performance by injecting sharper accountability.

At a press conference in Salem, Novick slammed the legislation, faulting what he characterized as a spineless Congress, and compared NCLB to the flawed implementation of the Iraq war policy.

"It is no secret that in the past six years, many educators, administrators, parents and politicians have complained long and loud about the implementation of No Child Left Behind. What remains a mystery, to me at least, is why so few members of Congress had the courage and the sense to vote against this law when it was first proposed," said Novick at a Salem press conference.  "For it is, and always should have been, fairly obvious that NCLB was, from the beginning, the domestic policy equivalent of the war in Iraq – a proposal sold on blatantly false pretenses, to fulfill an agenda that had little or nothing to do with the Administration's stated rationale."