Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, is a member of the Senate’s education committee and the conference committee that negotiated the final bill.
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was one of several lawmakers who attended the bill-signing.
NPR reports the “right here” was the South Court Auditorium, part of the White House complex.
On Thursday, President Obama signed a massive reform to the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, impacting student testing and school funding across the board.
“This law takes away the federal mandate and the punitive measures and puts a lot of work back on the states to have good conversation”.
“The No Child Left Behind trend has been a helpless trend”, Frank Killian, at Richland Schools, said.
Key changes to the law include returning power to states to determine how to use state testing in evaluating schools.
The new education law also encourages different states to limit the time for students to spend in testing. But in practice, the law became more of a burden than a remedy.
Steve Hopkins, the Superintendent for the Natrona County School District said “One thing I know about education is, we have about 13,000 students in our district today, we can’t treat them all the same”.
“I am proud that so numerous provisions I authored are included in this bill – things like strengthening STEM education, expanding student mental health services, increasing access to accelerated learning courses that help high school students earn college credit, and improving the recruitment and preparation of quality school principals”, Franken said when the measure passed the Senate.
“The impact of the NCLB law is literally every parent getting a letter home from school in the fall saying your school is failing, which didn’t improve education for anyone”, Murray said.
“This legislation will move control of our schools back toward states and local communities, as it should be”, Cochran said.
President Barack Obama signs Every Student Succeeds Act, a bipartisan rewrite of No Child Left Behind, Dec. 10. “There will be no more letters home to parents”.
The law also prohibits the federal government from imposing Common Core standards – which critics argued were too hard for most students to achieve. The Texas legislature will now have control over the level of accountability for schools and students if they perform poorly on standardized tests, or even pass those decisions on to individual districts.
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“The building process just now starts, so we don’t have anything in hand, but at least now we have the freedom to create what’s best for the kids instead of what the federal government thinks is best for us”, Killian said.
