From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

The next campaign for president is already underway.

Hello again, I'm Mormon-Aulny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues. Americans care about most.

After tomorrow, George Bush still has one more State of the Union speech to go.

But major candidates already are lining up to replace him.

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, just in the top tiers.

A bit later on To the Point, we'll check the lineups exactly a year to the day

before the first primary voter will even be heard from.

Will education be a defining issue?

We'll look at the pros and cons of no child left behind.

Does testing become the end of quality education instead of just the beginning?

First, here's the news.

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and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again, Warren Allie, back with To the Point. With presidential candidates already

lining up, will education be a defining issue in next year's campaign? On To the Point,

the pros and cons of no child left behind. On reporter's notebook, we'll check out the growing

lineups in both political parties

exactly a year before the primary voting begins. First, this news update from Iraq today,

an all too familiar story as many as 100 people killed and many more wounded in bomb attacks.

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