Gill also praised provisions in the new law that provide mental and emotional help for students.
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“No Child Left Behind was really a flawed bill, a flawed law, and the fact that we have bipartisan folks working on this, we feel like this is going to be a good thing for education”, Luther said.
The new law also ends federal mandates related to teacher evaluations.
As with NCLB, Every Student still requires annual testing in grades three through eight in math and reading, and a one-time test in high school.
The long-awaited bill to replace the 2002 law easily passed the Senate on Wednesday and the House last week, in a rare example of the Republican-controlled Congress and Obama finding common ground on major legislation.
The new law won praise from Minnesota Education Commissioner Brenda Casselius.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. talks with Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee member Sen.
She says time and consistency will tell how the new program will work for local schools.
“When the STAAR results come in, I’m eager to open it, and then I’m not at the same time because I don’t want to read it and say I failed”, said Marcus Salazar, a student at Ross Middle School. Testing will be one factor considered, but other measures of success or failure could include graduation rates and education atmosphere.
However, each state is required to outline an education plan.
Controversial parts of the no child left behind act are no longer the law. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida and Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders. “Under No Child Left Behind, the federal government drove everything that happened in education and it was never our conversation as a state”.
The Common Core college and career-ready curriculum guidelines were created by the states, but became a flash point for those critical of Washington influence in schools. It was approved during former President George H.W. Bush’s administration. 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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No Child has been up for reauthorization since 2007, but previous attempts to renew the law have been caught in a broader debate over the federal role in public education.
