Posted on 10/05/2006 5:45:51 PM PDT by snugs
Today the President attended a 'No Child Left Behind' event at Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus in Washington.
He also met with National Commander of the American Legion Paul A. Morin, of Chicopee, Mass., in the Oval Office
The Vice President has had a busy 3 days fund raising and visiting US troops
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq today
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met with Croatian Defense Minister Berislav Roncevic at the Pentagon
The First Lady joned her second-grade teacher Charlene Gnagy at a press conference in New York in support of TeachersCount, an organization that works to raise the status of teachers and provide resources for educators
The First Lady also spoke at the Preserve America History Teacher of the Year award ceremony in the Union League Club's Lincoln Hall, in New York
Former President Bush addresses a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally at a private residence in Gladwyne, Pa. for Sen. Rick Santorum
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
President Bush Discusses No Child Left Behind
Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus
Washington, D.C.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you for the warm welcome. Thank you for inviting Madam Secretary and me to your school. It's nice to be introduced by somebody with a Texas accent. (Laughter.) She's a good buddy, and she is doing a fine job as the Secretary of Education. So, Margaret, thank you very much for your service.
I'm glad to be at Woodridge, as well. I'm here because this is one of America's fine public charter schools. I'm here to remind people that charter schools work, and they can make a difference in the lives of our children. So I want to thank you for letting me come. I want to thank the teachers and the administrators and the principals -- and the principal, for setting high expectations. I know that sounds simple, but you know what happens when you set low expectations? You get low results. And so a center of excellence is always a place of learning where people believe the best. And I want to thank the folks here for setting high expectations. I want to thank you for achieving results.
One out of every four 9th graders in America does not graduate from high school on time. That's unacceptable. If we want to be competitive, we better make sure that the skills that are now being imparted at elementary school and junior high carry on through high school. We don't want the good work here at Woodridge to be lost because there's -- because some say, well, I don't need to get out of high school, or the accountability systems in high school don't measure up. And so what I want to do is I want to have the same sense of accountability in our high schools that we have in our junior high and elementary schools -- not to increase the testing burden, but to help us understand whether or not we are achieving our national objective, which is giving our kids the skills necessary to be competitive.
And so I think we need to fund testing early in the high-school systems, and to help students fix problems like we're doing in elementary school and high schools [sic]. I proposed a billion-and-a-half dollar initiative; Congress needs to fund it.
I've also proposed a program to train 70,000 teachers over five years to lead Advanced Placement classes in our high schools. Advanced Placement works. It is a -- it is an excellent program that helps our high schools set high standards. And it calls -- it challenges our students to achieve great things by raising the standards.
Many of you know about AP. It needs to be spread all throughout America. And step one is to make sure our teachers have the skills necessary to teach it. And step two is to help states develop programs that will help parents pay for the AP test. What we don't want is a child taking an AP class and having mom or dad say, it's too expensive to take the test. You pass an AP test, you're on your way. If you've got the skills necessary to pass an AP test, it means the education system has done its job, and our country is better off.
And so here are some ideas for the Congress and the administration to work on as we think about how to reauthorize the No Child Left Behind Act. I strongly believe this piece of legislation is working. I know it is necessary to have this kind of rigor in our school systems to say, we have done our job and given our kids the skills necessary to succeed. And I want to thank you all for serving as a great example. Thank you for inviting me. Again, I thank the teachers for teaching, and the parents for loving, and the students for reading.
God bless. (Applause.)
PHOTO OF THE DAY 
President George W. Bush poses with students after speaking at a 'No Child Left Behind' event at the Friendship Public Charter School's Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus in Washington October 5, 2006.
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President Bush , second left, is introduced by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings , right, before speaking about the 'No Child Left Behind' education program at Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter school, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006
President Bush , center, is accompanied by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings , left, as he talks with students Se'vaughn Carter, right, and Caleb Gray, 12, second right, during a visit to a 'Smart Lab' at Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter school, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006
President Bush, center, is accompanied by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, left, as he talks with students Se'vaughn Carter, back to camera at right, and Caleb Gray, 12, during a visit to a 'Smart Lab' at Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus, a charter school, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006
U.S. President George W. Bush stands next to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (2nd R) as they visit a 'Smart Lab' at the Friendship Public Charter School's Woodridge Elementary and Middle Campus in Washington, October 5, 2006. Students Bijan Smith (L), 13, and Caleb Gray (R), 12, gave them a demonstration of class projects
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President Bush , right, meets with National Commander of the American Legion Paul A. Morin, of Chicopee, Mass., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006
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