ESEA Reauthorization: What’s in the Box?
In July 2015, I read that Senator Lamar Alexander expected to have the next version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) completed by December 2015.
It looks like he will accomplish that goal. Here’s how:
In July 2015, both House and Senate passed bills to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. The House version is known as the Student Success Act (SSA); the Senate version is called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) of 2015.
Both are an effort to reauthorize the last version of ESEA known as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. Since both House and Senate have passed versions of an ESEA reauthorization, they now must come together and sort out the issues that differ between their two versions so that they might present a single bill to both houses for a vote.
The committee chairs who presided over the House and Senate bills, Representative John Kline (R-MN) and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), respectively, apparently had their people work with the people of Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) during September and October so that the four of them (likely through their people) could create what they are calling a “framework” for a single ESEA reauthorization bill.
On November 17 and 18, 2015, both House and Senate, respectively, decided upon the members of the conference committee that is supposed to negotiate the single ESEA reauthorization bill. But events are moving at warp speed for this conference ESEA Reauthorization: What’s in the Box? | deutsch29: