Friday, January 2, 2015 No Child Left Behind Law may finally be fixed. Please Republicans before you destroy it and the teachers what should be fixed not the Administrators. Republicans Could Dramatically Rewrite No Child Left Behind Republicans have plans to overhaul the... F. PETER BROWN — JANUARY 2, 2015 Republicans have plans to overhaul the No Child Left Behind law- in a way that would significantly reduce the role of the federal government in education. Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Representative John Kline of Minnesota, who will respectively lead the Senate and House education committees, are planning the overhaul. Alexander has spent time meeting with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the committee’s forthcoming ranking member, as well as other lawmakers, setting strategy for the bill–which Alexander hopes will be on the president’s desk by summer. The National Education Association hopes that testing requirements set up by No Child Left Behind will be rolled back. The argument over school vouchers has also accelerated as Congress moves toward the rewrite of the law. Civil rights groups claim to have been caught off guard by the debate over testing, as such testing allowed results to be broken down by race and socioeconomic status. Proponents say that testing, by allowing such comparisons, safeguards civil rights. No Child Left Behind expired in 2007, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle felt it needed changes. This was in stark contrast to the burst of bipartisan support for the law earlier in George W. Bush’s presidency. Plans to rewrite the law in 2007 went nowhere, though. By 2013, both the Democratic and Republican parties had separate bills to overhaul the law. However, Republican Rep. John Kline’s bill was dead on arrival in the Senate. Currently, the debate over the law centers over a few key provisions of its 600+ pages–including testing, punishment of low-performing schools, and the promotion of good teaching. What do you think? Has it come time to dramatically overhaul the No Child Left Behind law?
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 01:47:10 +0000
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