Former Washington Times education beat reporter George Archibald is seeking to become the paper's editor-in-chief, according Media Bistro.

Not mentioned in his application letter -- the U.S. Department of Education ranked his reporting on No Child Left Behind as the least friendly to the law.  The Department's contractor, Ketchum, ranked five of Archibald's articles and gave them a score of -2. 

If Archibald were to get the top job, he'd be following in the footsteps of other DC education reporters who have recently moved to more high-profile jobs after covering education, including the AP's Ben Feller, now on the White House beat, and Amit Paley, who is headed to Iraq.

(*Okay, technically he was a "senior investigative reporter" or somesuch, but national education policy was certainly one of the things he wrote about often.)