President Obama signed off on a new federal education law Thursday and it will bring changes to Oklahoma schools.
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Kati Haycock, president of The Education Trust, an educational advocacy organization, said state-level actors might be less galvanized to address achievement gaps without the federal government threatening intervention.
“In South Dakota we expect that we’re going to care about each child…we hope to continue to do that whatever the federal legislation happens to be”, Danielsen said.
Rushefski says the big change he sees coming is how success in the classroom is evaluated.
The college and career-ready curriculum guidelines were created by the states but became a flashpoint for those critical of Washington’s influence in schools. “It is important that Congress protect the prerogative of states to set educational standards that best suit their students”. “And it is proof that we can overcome our differences and come together and actually solve problems”. That’s not what education should be all about. The states are now expected to establish their own standards for determining school quality, permitting local education officials to use other factors in the status of their schools. The Every Student Succeeds Act also enables states to get rid of Common Core curriculum because the federal government is no longer able to mandate a national curriculum.
As a result of the passage of ESSA, states would also have to identify and intervene in high schools where the graduation rate is 67 percent or less.
The department has already started to address those Priority Schools making little or no progress by implementing novice reduction strategies, strengthening the capacity of leadership in those schools and districts, and working to ensure that resources are aligned to Priority School work.
Under the new act, schools will still have to test students in third through eighth grades and again in high school, but teachers have more flexibility when it comes to doing the testing.
“He’s 3 years old”.
“This will be a process involving multiple stakeholders, and require more than MDE’s input”, Whiston said in a statement.
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House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minn.) said the new approach to K-12 education “will help every child in every school receive an excellent education”.
