Illinois Senator Barack Obama wants to enhance No Child Left Behind by funding it with $18 billion. Jesse Russell reports:

One Democratic candidate has lauded President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act – but hefted criticism on the President for not injecting the proper amount of funding. Illinois Senator Barack Obama during a campaign stop in New Hampshire called the current failures in the educational system "morally unacceptable." He criticized fellow democrats and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards for not voting to support a bill that would have suspended enforcement of no child left behind if it wasn't properly funded. To make up for it Obama said that as President he pledge $18 billion more dollars toward education. And to pay for it he would cut spending on Iraq, close tax loopholes for CEOs, and auction off federal surplus.