State, local education officials welcome replacement for No Child Left Behind

President Barack Obama tagged it a “Christmas Miracle”, due to its overwhelming bipartisan support.

That unpopular law has been replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA for short.

“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”.

The test, which stands for State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, was instituted as part of a federal requirement set forth by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Sheldahl said, the new law won’t change much locally so the school hasn’t taken too much time to talk about how they plan on implementing new educational tactics. As a result, states and local school districts will have more authority to decide how to use students’ test performance in assessing teachers and schools.

“I am proud that so numerous provisions I authored are included in this bill – things like strengthening STEM education, expanding student mental health services, increasing access to accelerated learning courses that help high school students earn college credit, and improving the recruitment and preparation of quality school principals”, Franken said when the measure passed the Senate. “It allows us to bring in more components and really look at well being of students, what does the whole school look like so that we get a broader picture of what a positive school looks like and include that in a new accountability system”.

Luther and Fuller both said No Child Left Behind was a flawed bill.

Teachers say the No Child Left Behind Act was one-size-fits-all, but administrators said that didn’t work.

Educators say the new law is not a matter of backing down on accountability, but making it more applicable to each region.

Luther said there will still be testing in English and math between third and eighth grades and the high school level. No there were, but I really think this is a good example of how bipartisanship can work.

National Education Association President Lily Eskelsen García applauded ESSA, saying, “For the first time since No Child Left Behind was enacted almost 14 years ago, ESSA empowers educators as trusted professionals to make school and classroom decisions while keeping the focus on students most in need”, according to The Associated Press.