Spellings Takes Issue With NCLB Draft
Secretary says she is ‘deeply troubled’ by sections that might soften accountability.
Despite their agreement on the overall goals and principles of the No Child Left Behind Act, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., differ on the accountability policies they believe are needed to achieve those goals.
In
a Sept. 5 letter to Mr. Miller
, the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Ms. Spellings wrote that she was “deeply troubled” by several sections of
a draft bill to reauthorize the main provisions of Title I of the NCLB law
Ms. Spellings said in a speech earlier that day that the draft bill’s accountability proposals would create “big loopholes” that would allow schools to escape from the accountability system even though their students weren’t on track to become proficient...
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