Our proposals on the Senate ESEA reauthorization bill
This letter is available as a pdf here.
October 18, 2011
Re: Reauthorization of ESEA
Dear Senator Harkin:
Your proposed revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act show that you and the HELP Committee have listened to some of the concerns voiced by parents and others about the problems with No Child Left Behind. For example, we strongly support doing away with the adequate yearly progress measurement, and agree that requiring states to adopt unreliable test-based principal and teacher evaluation will only lead to an overemphasis on standardized tests and the further narrowing of the curriculum. Thank you from Parents Across America!
However, we believe that