This article reports that President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget request for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act is being criticized by two key congressional Democrats as they believe that the plan falls short of what schools need to get on track to meet the measure's ambitious achievement goals. Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., the chairmen, respectively, of the House and Senate education committees, said the inclusion of a long-sought hike for Title I grants to school districts and new money to improve struggling schools in the administration's $56 billion spending plan for the U.S. Department of Education will not make up for two years of stagnant federal spending on school programs. Both noted that the president's plan, which was unveiled February 5, 2007, would shortchange the department's overall discretionary budget by 2.6 percent compared with the $57.5 billion set for the department in a fiscal 2007 spending bill approved by the House on January 31.