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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

JUST IN: Senate clears major new education bill, sends it to Obama

The way the nation's public schools are evaluated -- teachers, students and the schools themselves -- is headed for a major makeover, with a sweeping shift from federal to state control over school accountability and student testing.

The Senate on Wednesday voted 85-12 to approve legislation rewriting the landmark No Child Left Behind education law of 2002, now widely unpopular and criticized as unworkable and unrealistic. The measure now goes to the White House, where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.

The bill would keep a key feature of No Child: the federally mandated statewide reading and math exams in grades three to eight and one such test in high school. But it would encourage states to set caps on the time students spend on testing and it would diminish the high stakes associated with these exams for underperforming schools.

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 9, 2015 at 1:57 PM

    the continued Dumbing Down of our schools. we have a bunch of self-serving idiots who were educated in government/public schools for the past 30 - 40 years and it's only getting worse each day. get you children out of this failing system asap. you only have ONE opportunity to educate your children. do you want to be responsible for their poor education?

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  2. AnonymousDecember 9, 2015 at 2:25 PM

    Seaside Christian Academy - Ocean City MD

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  3. AnonymousDecember 9, 2015 at 4:57 PM

    Since No Child Left Behind became an unpopular law, it's forgotten (or intentionally not talked about) that Ted Kennedy was one of the main authors on that bill, which was supported by President Bush at that time.

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