Alexander Bill Offers States More Latitude
A leading Republican introduced a bill last week to create a pilot project to give states greater flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act , even though it has become clear that the Senate won’t pass a bill to reauthorize the law this year.
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee proposed giving 12 states wide latitude in devising accountability systems and intervening in schools that fail to meet their NCLB achievement goals. In exchange, the states would agree to increase the...
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