Source Note: “President Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act into law”

March 4, 2009 in Research Project

Title: “President Bush signs the No Child Left Behind Act into law”

Summary: A photograph captures President Bush signing NCLB into law at a school in Hamilton, Ohio, on January 8, 2002.

Topic: Should the Obama Administration reform the No Child Left Behind Act?

Category: Institutional; Government; U.S. Government Press Image

Publication Information: Executive Office of the President of the United States, January 8, 2002

Author: N/A; Employees of the U.S. federal government cannot take personal credit for photographs taken in the course of government work.

Location: House.gov

Accessed: February 19th, 2009

Support:

• President George W. Bush: The President of the United States is responsible for signing into law legislation that has been passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate.
• Secretary of Education Rod Paige: The Secretary of Education is responsible for overseeing the implementation and enforcement of federal education law in the United States.
• Representative George Miller (D-CA): Co-author of the No Child Left Behind Act.
• Senator Judge Gregg (R-NH): Co-author of the No Child Left Behind Act.
• Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA): The primary sponsor of the No Child Left Behind Act.
• Representative John Boehner (R-OH): Co-author of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Audience and Agenda: The Executive Office of the President of the United States exists to provide structural and logistical support for the President in the execution of his duties. This includes helping the President prepare for public appearances, issuing press releases, and taking official photographs of the President in the course of his duties.

Usefulness: The optimism on the faces of the assembled politicians is indicative of their high hopes for No Child Left Behind as the flagship of federal education reform. The photograph is useful for my research project as it sets the emotional tone  of the U.S. political arena towards the future of education policy at the time of the law’s passage.

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