The potential No Child Left Behind/ESEA reauthorization bill is shaping up to be the Teachers Union Empowerment Act of 2015. Money with no conditions and intense state and local decision-making (where the unions and other vested interests are strongest). Why Lamar Alexander and his more conservative colleagues in the House and Senate are pushing that is a political play so sophisticated it escapes most (including me). Mike Petrilli breaks down the current bidding here.