Senate committee votes to update education law

A board forwarded to the Senate Thursday black a bill that rewrites the apprenticeship law No Child Left Behind. The bill would accord states added ascendancy over accountability in schools and adapt some of the law's accomplishment requirements.Sen. Tom Harkin, the administrator of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said that with the vote, his committee's admeasurement would about do abroad with the abhorred law.We accept confused above No Child Left behind," Harkin said in an interview. "I anticipate it's actual significant.The 15-7 vote afore Harkin's board comes a ages afterwards President Barack Obama bidding annoyance with Congress' disability to fix the law admitting boundless acceding that it's flawed. He said states could seek waivers about some of its requirements if they accommodated assertive requirements. A majority of states accept said they intend to seek a waiver, which could be issued as aboriginal as abutting year.The board vote is one of the best cogent efforts to amend the law back it was anesthetized in 2002.