Bipartisan Report Faults Bush Initiative on Education.

Concluding a yearlong study on the effectiveness of the No Child Left Behind program, a bipartisan panel of lawmakers drawn from many states pronounced President Bush's sweeping education law a flawed, convoluted and unconstitutional initiative that usurped state and local control of public schools.

(2-24-05, The New York Times; 2-24-05, The Washington Post.)