GOP senators introduce rewrite of No Child to make it more flexible
I am about to get on a conference call on a new Senate initiative to fix the federal No Child Left Behind Act. But here is the official statement about a series of GOP bills designed to increase the state role and decrease the federal one. Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson is among the sponsors.
U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.)— all members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee — today announced they are introducing a series of education bills to “fix” No Child Left Behind.
The senators said that for the nation’s 100,000 public schools, the legislation would end the federal mandates through which Washington, D.C., decides which schools and teachers are succeeding or failing.
According to the senators, much has happened over the last 10 years and it is time to transfer responsibility back to states and communities. Since No Child Left Behind was enacted in 2002, 44 states have adopted common core academic standards, two groups of
