Education bill aims to give power to states

Congress appears close to passing an education reform bill that would give Alaska and other states more flexibility than the current 14-year-old education law.
“It’s so much better than where we have been with No Child Left Behind,” says Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of the negotiators who worked on the final version of the reform bill.
The bill does not abolish testing requirements, one of the most hated elements of No Child Left Behind. Annual math and reading tests woul