The House overwhelmingly passed the Every Student Succeeds Act. Every Student Succeeds relaxes much of the federal pressure put on states and school districts. This legislation could replace No Child Left Behind.
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Pearson said it hasn’t been determined yet if the Department and the State Board of Education can establish an additional indicator or indicators on their own or if legislative action will be required.
Mary Kusler, director of government relations for the National Education Association, said it lessens the power of the federal Secretary of Education. He didn’t specify how it does so.
And under Sec. 1201, states are permitted to use a portion of federal funding provided to support the development of statewide assessments to integrate concepts related to engineering and technology into the states’ science assessments, according to the STEM Education Coalition.
Ashley Berrang, a spokeswoman for Sen.
Still, Northern Virginia Democratic Congressman Don Beyer says the final bill represents significant progress.
As he approaches his a year ago in office, President Barack Obama seems weirdly passive about protecting one of his signature domestic achievements: education reform.
The legislation would maintain a key feature of the No Child law: annual reading and math testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school.
“By focusing on only one school, students run the risk of being turned down for admission or losing out on better financial aid and educational opportunities from another school, with ramifications that can last a lifetime”, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in the release. It doesn’t. It sets up several new federal education programs (albeit desirable ones – STEM and Civics), continues failed pre-school programs and locks them in for another four years.
“It doesn’t just allow, but actually encourages state and local actors to use that full spectrum of information to see how our schools are doing”, said Carmel Martin, executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress.
Bennet was a member of a joint House and Senate conference committee, established in mid-November, that was tasked with reconciling differences between education legislation passed earlier this year by both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
But, if you think that civil rights include the ability for parents and students to make choices about what they learn and when they learn it, then this bill is not a civil rights victory, it is a civil rights defeat.
“But not only did we pass some long-stalled priorities for America-we often did so on a bipartisan basis”.
“(It) also gives state and local governments more authority in setting their own high standards through less testing and more creativity in the classroom”, Beyer said.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A long-awaited rewrite of federal education law appears headed toward final congressional approval. The Obama administration promised states grant money based partly on them adopting standards that were “common” with other states, and it provided money to develop tests for Common Core and promoted it through the No Child Left Behind waivers. “Parents, students, teachers, all have told me that the law was broken, with its overemphasis on high-stakes testing, and with the negative way it treats schools”, said Murray.
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Folsom said that because the bill is allowing more flexibility from the state, it’s going to offer Kansas the opportunity to maybe make more sense of the connection between student growth measures and teacher evaluations. Every Student Succeeds requires states to add at least one “non-academic” factor, things like student and/or educator engagement as measured by surveys, student readiness for the workforce or school climate. The number of English learners in the USA has grown to about 1 in 10 students, she says. She said she’s concerned the bill could endanger progress states have already made in developing teacher evaluation systems. Nor will Texas be forced to use school “turnaround” models like firing all of a school’s staff, closing campuses or turning neighborhood schools over to charter school operators – all of which have had dismal results in raising the level of student achievement.
