President Obama signs No Child Left Behind rewrite into law, and says that the new education law, which is dubbed the Every Student Succeeds Act, is a "Christmas miracle...." By Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and the Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper and Newspaper Blog. Tel: 216-659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com . Coleman is a 23-year political, educational, legal and investigative journalist who trained for 17 years, and under six different editors, at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )/ ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, CLEVELAND, OHIO-WASHINGTON, D.C.- President Obama, on Thursday, signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law , a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, which, itself, was a re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. Calling the new education law a Christmas miracle, the president said that “there is nothing more essential to living up to the ideals of this nation than to make sure every child is able t