Education Groups Unite in Opposition to Divided ESEA
Major education groups and some state officials are uniting in opposition to House Republicans' plans to divide the reauthorization legislation for the nation's main K-12 law into several separate bills.
The chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, Rep. Bill Goodling, R-Pa., has indicated in recent months that he would like to move the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization in multiple pieces rather than as one huge bill.
The unfolding plan, which still is not final, envisions writing a separate bill for Title I of the ESEA, which focuses on high-poverty students, and another bill focusing on teacher-quality provisions, including the Eisenhower professional-development program and related teacher efforts, according to Jay Diskey, a spokesman for the Republicans on the committee. Beyond those, one or more other bills could cover the rest of the programs under...
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