The Waiver Wire: The Only Game in Town (besides that basketball thing)
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Two weeks ago, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce reported out two of Chairman John Kline’s ESEA reauthorization bills, the Student Success Act and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teaching Act, on a party-line vote, 23-16. Democrats, led by Ranking Member George Miller, offered just two (unsuccessful) amendments, both substitute bills. These would have required states to maintain achievement targets for student subgroups as part of accountability systems – a major issue for civil rights’ groups opposed to Kline’s bills. On the teacher side, Miller proposed that states would have a greater role in designing evaluation systems, unlike the Kline bill where districts have control.
