IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, check out Politicos article, The plot to overhaul No Child Left Behind, on Sen. Alexanders plan to reform NCLB and return responsibility to states and local communities to create and implement their own education standards and tests, evaluate teachers and principals, and improve schools. The Republican proposal to fix NCLB would give states the option — not mandate — to take federal dollars and let those dollars follow children to the schools they attend. We want to expand choice, but my view is that the federal government shouldnt mandate it. Republicans would [also] transfer back to states the responsibility for deciding whether schools are succeeding or failing. States would decide what the academic standards would be, what the curriculum would be, what to do about failing schools and how to evaluate teachers. Read the full story HERE: alexander.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsarticles?ID=d9d9bd19-9ccd-4b9f-9ca3-476266784a1e
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 22:39:16 +0000
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