" It really saddens me that this is how the Department of Education thinks that parents are best served , by boiling everything that happens in an entire school to a letter grade , " said Lee Solomon , the mother of a first-grader at the Brooklyn New School , a sought-after school that accepts students only by lottery but got a C. Educators have debated the push toward testing since No Child Left Behind was enacted in 2002 at President Bush 's urging .