09/29/2003
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"This is an encouraging report because it shows there's an achievement gap in America that is closing."
"It shows that a system that measures and focuses on every child is a system that can help us."
"Every child learning to read and no child being left behind."
"The President's senior advisors would recommend that he veto the bill if it were presented to him without language similar to the House provisions."