That has now been removed from the legislation, too. What Bush has prevailed on is much of his stringent student-testing requirement, on which conservatives have long been split. Overall, the legislation simplifies and consolidates federal education grants, requires testing and rewards or punishes schools based on their performance. It also increases education funding by a yet-undetermined amount. The think tank would like to see Bush reject the compromise and use it as a campaign issue.
Conservatives have a sense of what's possible at any given time.
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