Here's something new for Kerry to potentially latch on to, from a
story about a Bush rally today:
Bush also said he would implement a federal requirement for high school exit exams -- a highly controversial step that would force half the states that currently don't administer them to approve and develop such tests.
"Over time we will require exit exams from high school, because we want the high school diplomas to mean something," Bush said in Pennsylvania.
His aides said Bush had misspoken, and did not intend to seek such a requirement. They said Bush was referring to his proposal, announced Thursday night, to require states to test students annually in reading and math in grades three through 11. That's an expansion of the law he signed in 2002, which requires those tests in grades three through eight, and at least once during grades 10 to 12.
Does Kerry ridicule Bush on this? Can Bush get away with AGAIN using the "he misspoke" excuse? This was no one-word slip-up; it could be interpreted that, if he doesn't actyally want to require these exit exams, he misunderstands his own friggin' policies.