Wall Street Journal Editorial:

President Bush has often spoken about education reform as a civil rights issue. So we’re not entirely surprised to see civil rights groups now defending the No Child Left Behind law against attempts to gut its most effective provisions.
Last month, Representative Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican, introduced the NCLB Recess Until Reauthorization Act, which would essentially suspend the law’s accountability provisions but not the funding. Under Mr. Graves’s bill, schools would no longer have to file progress reports that expose achievement gaps between kids of different races, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.