ESEA Action High Priority, Duncan Says
Washington
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan signaled last week that the Department of Education is poised to launch reauthorization efforts for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. He used a packed meeting of key stakeholders here to underline his likely priorities and stress his sense of urgency.
The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.
Mr. Duncan repeated his assertion, made in a number of speeches since he took office this...
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Correction:
An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect title for Reginald Felton. He is the director of federal relations for the National School Boards Association, based in Alexandria, Va.
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