Fulton says passage of the bill is a testament to the hard work of educators and citizens who pushed for the changes.
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“Whereas No Child Left Behind prescribed a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to struggling schools, this law offers the flexibility to find the best local solutions-while also ensuring that students are making progress”, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday at an event in Washington.
On Thursday, in a somewhat rare bill-signing ceremony underscoring how unpopular the law had become, President Barack Obama signed the Every Child Succeeds Act as a replacement. Obama held it up as an “example of how bipartisanship should work”, noting that opposing sides had compromised to reach a deal.
Obama says the overhaul is long overdue. Patty Murray of Washington – and in the House, Education Committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., and ranking Democrat Bobby Scott of Virginia.
“This legislation will move control of our schools back toward states and local communities, as it should be”, Cochran said.
Under that law, the federal government designed an accountability system to evaluate states’ schools.
Don’t start applauding yet, kids. “I wish they would have reduced the testing requirements for elementary students in grades three through eight and then once in high school, that requirement is still there that they are tested ever year”, Freeman said.
This new law gives power to the states.
While some school districts and the state are happy with this new legislation, some parents are happy, too, with this new focus when it comes to schools.
One parent group from Florida says the rewrite doesn’t do enough to reduce the federal government’s role in education, saying it does not fix some of the core problems plaguing education.
Already, some states have begun backing away from Common Core.
The act states that it will also do a lot to help support teachers. And it would require schools to report the results by students’ race, family income, and disability status. Testing will be one factor considered, but other measures of success or failure could include graduation rates and education atmosphere. Holding everybody to high standards for teaching and learning, empowering states and school districts to develop their own strategies for improvement, dedicating resources to our most vulnerable children.
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The primary goal of the new legislation is to scale back federal involvement in education and put control back the hands of state and local governments.
