Presumptive vice presidential nominee Joe Biden voted for NCLB, but now he regrets it.
The Delaware senator said in a presidential debate last year said he voted for the now controversial law in 2001 because he 鈥渉as great faith in Ted Kennedy,鈥� the Massachusetts Democrat who led the effort to ensure its bipartisan passage.
It鈥檚 time to start over on K-12 policy, Biden added.
I would scrap it鈥攐r I guess, theoretically, you could do a major overhaul. But I think I鈥檇 start from the beginning. You need better teachers. You need smaller classrooms. You need to start kids earlier. It鈥檚 all basic.
Biden鈥檚 comments are at the bottom of this debate transcript.
For a complete compilation of Biden鈥檚 education statements during the primaries, see this summary from ontheissues.org.
