Chairman Kline Releases Final Two ESEA Bills on Accountability and Teacher Quality

Chairman Kline Releases Final Two ESEA Bills on Accountability and Teacher Quality:

Chairman Kline Releases Final Two ESEA Bills on Accountability and Teacher Quality

On January 9, 2012, in Elementary and Secondary Education Act, by Mary Kingston

On Friday, the Chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee John Kline (R-MN) released his final two ESEA bills on accountability and teacher quality. As you recall, the House committee has already approved three ESEA bills this session: to eliminate nearly half of all federal education programs (HR 1891); to allow states and districts to transfer funds between various titles of ESEA (HR 2445); and to create new charter schools and expand high-quality ones. The bill on charter schools is the only bill with bipartisan support in the committee and the only one to gain passage by the full House. What follows is NASSP’s summary and initial analysis of these remaining two ESEA bills released as they impact schoo