House to vote on No Child Left Behind rewrite

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved toward a vote Wednesday on a long-sought rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law that would roll back the federal government’s authority to push academic standards and tell failing schools how to improve.
The legislation, a compromise reached by House and Senate negotiators, would continue No Child’s requirement for annual reading and math testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school. But it would shift back