by Robert Borosage and Earl Hadley
Tom Paine
If the Senate's doing its job, Bush's pick for education secretary should face some tough questions tomorrow.
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After gaining bipartisan support for passage of the No Child Left Behind Act, the Bush administration broke its own promise to provide the funds to help schools meet the challenge. And Secretary Rodney Paige bungled management of the law, equating the criticisms coming from teachers in the classroom with treason, and accusing teachers of belonging to a "terrorist organization."
Now Bush seeks to replace Paige with the person who has been pulling the strings all along: Margaret Spellings, a former White House domestic policy adviser and longtime Bush loyalist. Hearings on the Spellings nomination take place tomorrow, but she's already been given the nod by Sen. Kennedy and other key Democratic senators. But before the Senate confirms the nomination, senators would be wise to probe whether the trail of broken promises, bungled administration and distorted priorities will continue. Here are a few common-sense questions that American parents have the right to know.
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