And administrators say the new law won’t only relieve stress from students, before the new act was passed many teachers compensation was affected by how well students performed on their testing scores. He said that in practice, it fell short or applied a cookie-cutter approach that failed to produce desired results.
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President Obama put his pen to paper Thursday to sign the measure into law.
Educators say the new law is not a matter of backing down on accountability, but making it more applicable to each region.
Provide more children access to high-quality preschool. “So no longer will we just look at proficiency, but we’ll also continue to look at growth, which is something that Colorado has really valued for a long time”.
Local school districts and the state will now have a seat at the table when it comes to standardized tests and underachieving schools.
“The Every Student Succeeds Act affirms that every student has the right to an equal education as stated in Brown v. Board of Education, and honors the civil rights legacy of the original ESEA”, said Virginia Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA).
The rewrite of the law will bring more money to North Carolina and more than 30 other states to help schools in poor areas locate and retain good teachers.
“What I’m very happy about is that Congress is building in time for transitioning from the current system to the new system”, Fabrizio said. “Local and state leaders are best positioned to determine policies that affect Alabama’s students because they have direct interaction with parents and teachers in their communities”. It requires schools to test 95% of students every year from the third through eighth grades, and again in high school. There will also be a change in English language acquisition, suspension rates as well as the measure of test scores. The act has several components and will allow individual states to help develop the criteria to identify and assist failing or underachieving schools compared to a single national model.
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Durango School District 9-R Superintendent Dan Snowberger said he is pleased the new legislation will maintain required assessments for third-graders through eighth-graders, and once in high school.
