In an Article by SAM DILLON
of the New York Times (March 19, 2008), the Federal Government began to ease its regulation of the nation's schools: "The Bush administration, acknowledging that the federal No Child Left Behind
law is diagnosing too many public schools as failing, said Tuesday that
it would relax the law’s provisions for some states, allowing them to
distinguish schools with a few problems from those that need major
surgery."