Advocates, Policymakers Divided on House ESEA Draft

Advocates, Policymakers Divided on House ESEA Draft
by Alison Klein, Education Week (January 18, 2012)

Barebones policy would amount to major rollback of the federal accountability system at the heart of the NCLB law.

Education advocates and policymakers are sharply divided on whether House Republican's barebones approach to federal K-12 policy, as outlined in a draft bill issued last week, is a move in the right direction -- or even a politically viable approach to rewriting the decade-old No Child Left Behind Act.

Civil rights groups and advocates for special populations of stuents too a big swing last fall at a bipartisan bill approved by the Senate education committee to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and they found the House measure even more distressing.

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