Durbin discusses new education law

ESSA shifts federal control back to the state. Alexander was a chief author of the bill along with Democratic Sen.

This time, however, Congress not only approved a sweeping school reform bill that stripped the federal government of much of its involvement in education, it did so by overwhelming margins. She was picking up her son from Head Start preschool.

An unlikely coalition of governors, teachers, superintendents and school boards also stood firmly behind the effort to rewrite No Child Left Behind.

“Iowa and all states deserve a system of accountability and oversight that drives student learning and is based on growth and improvement”.

Absolutely, and I think it’s important that we continue to see it as such, that poverty is the academic issue that holds many children behind.

“When No Child Left Behind was enacted, it required all students to be 100 percent proficient in reading and math by 2014”, Balow said.

“Not that we don’t want all students to be proficient. We know there are other schools that are not hitting the mark yet”. “We welcome this opportunity to work with the state in implementing further programs and supports that are part of ESSA, and we look forward to partnering with other school districts in Nevada to comply with this new law”.

“The main reason for that transition period is that 43 states have waivers for No Child Left Behind that they have to transition out of”.

Public school students will still be required to take statewide reading and math exams. And science testing will occur annually in the third through 12th grades.

“The bill clearly reflects a sentiment among, I think, the American people that the federal government has been too heavily involved in education, especially under the No Child Left Behind Act”, he tells OneNewsNow. The same factors would apply for high schools with the addition of graduation rates.

But local officials say the state should take time when re-evaluating. “The ESSA aligns with the premise of Louisiana Believes trusting those closest to the students to make the best decisions for them.”, White says.

“(A) school is so many different things than just can be determined on a standardized test”, said Cline. There are some new charter schools that are doing a great job, there are still some public schools that are succeeding, but overall the situation is fairly bleak wherever poverty is concentrated.

NCLB was signed by President George W. Bush in early 2002 and was, itself, an update of a much older law – the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

“There are a couple key questions that we really don’t have the answer to yet”, he said.