STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — A central Pennsylvania educator resigned from the state's top education regulatory board, and said if he were to choose today, he would not vote for the No Child Left Behind legislation.

Standards continue to change, and teachers must take weeks out of their schedules for testing, departing state Board of Education member David Saxe, a former schoolteacher and a Penn State University professor.

"I think teachers and administrators are now marching to so many different masters — the federal government, state Board of Education, teacher unions — it's just pulling them, and the kids are suffering," Saxe said.

Rendell last week nominated A. Lee Williams of Slippery Rock to succeed Saxe, according to the State Department of Education.