Draft Bill Heats Up NCLB-Renewal Debate
House panel floats plan to adjust law’s accountability measures.
The release this week of a preliminary proposal for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act starts a busy fall in Congress, as both the House and the Senate try to revamp the NCLB accountability system and ramp up efforts to improve struggling schools.
Lobbyists and advocates spent
the last week of the August
congressional recess reading
through the
435-page draft bill
that outlines key House members’
plans to
change the accountability
system
by measuring
students’ academic
growth and adding
other indicators to those in reading
and mathematics.
Most education groups reacted
cautiously to the draft as they
considered the impact
of changes proposed in
the House Education
and Labor Committee
document, which committee
leaders called a “work in
progress” in
an open letter to “education
stakeholders”
.
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