House GOP rolls out conservative education bill
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made a fresh push Tuesday to pass a massive rewrite of No Child Left Behind, as Republicans try to roll back the controversial education performance standards of the past decade while touting conservative priorities like charter school vouchers.
Cantor (R-Va.) said last week that he wanted action quickly on the Student Success Act, which would consolidate dozens of federal programs for K-12 education and end federal performance goals for schools. It would also block the Education Department from encouraging the adoption of common education standards, such as the Common Core.
Continue ReadingThe House GOP bill won’t get much — if any — Democratic support, and it’s going nowhere in the Senate. But it represents an effort by Cantor and Republican leaders to start laying down their policy vision for education as Congress tries again to rewrite a wide swath of federal education policy law.
At a charter school in Northeast Washington, where Cantor and the Republican leadership of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce met Tuesday with parents and teachers, the majority leader also promoted an amendment that would create a public
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