Bush Lauds Governors on Schools
President Bush thanked the nation’s governors for a bipartisan “constructive relationship” on education Monday, even as Democrats stepped up their protest against the Administration’s latest tax proposal.
Bush addressed the governors at their National Governors’ Assn. annual summer conference, speaking by telephone from Washington.
He pledged continued support for the education reform goals he and the governors agreed on last year, and endorsed their revised plans for a national oversight panel that will grade the states and federal government on progress in meeting the goals. Democrats had insisted on the changes to deny Republicans control of the panel.
“I think it is essential there be some definitive way of measuring progress toward these education goals during the ‘90s, and this decision . . . makes good sense,” Bush said. “I want to thank everyone there for the constructive relationship that we’ve developed.”
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