Michael Bennet actually said...

"I think the good part is it brought us--you know, this was 10 years ago. It brought us to a standards-based education system where now we were accountable for every child and we had to have a standard..."

"The ugly part is we had a system where the Federal Government set the goal, and then they prescribed to the States what programs and processes we had to use to meet that goal."

"I think that this law, this reauthorization, has kept the good parts of No Child Left Behind."

"I think requiring having performance targets is really important."