House Passes Overhauled No Child Left Behind Bill

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House Passes Overhauled No Child Left Behind Bill

• The House narrowly passed a Republican-led
  rewrite from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind
  education law on Wednesday, voting to
  dramatically lessen the government role in
  education policy with the nations public
  schools.
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• The balance, sponsored by Minnesota Rep. John
  Kline, gives states and local school districts
  more control over assessing the performance of
  schools, teachers and their students. Furthermore
  , it prohibits government entities from requiring
  or encouraging specific teams of academic
  standards, like Common Core, and allows federal
  money to check out low-income children to public
  schools with their choice, a challenge called
  portability.
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• The 218-213 vote came five months after
  conservatives forced GOP leaders to get a similar
  bill just before a scheduled vote. These times,
  conservatives had indicated they would offer the
  legislation when they had the chance to offer
  amendments.
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• Your house passed its legislation since the
  Senate rejected a proposal to show federal aid
  for poor students up to the states, which could
  then let parents choose to spend your money from
  the public or private school they deem best
  because of their child. The vote was 45-52, next
  to a majority and 15 shy of the 60 required.
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• Under current law, your money goes toward school
  districts and generally stays in schools in the
  neighborhoods in which the children live.
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• Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said the proposed
  change would solve inequality in the us by
  providing children the means to go to a better
  school.
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• Sen. Wa state, D-Wash., who co-sponsored niche,
  countered the change would retreat on our
  fundamental persistence for ensure that every
  child has usage of a quality education.
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• Earlier in the House, some Republicans joined
  with Democrats to defeat a conservative-led try
  and let states completely cop out of No Child
  requirements without forfeiting federal money.
  That vote was 235-195.
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• Just like the House bill, the Senate measure also
  would whittle away government entitiess
  involvement in public areas schools.
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• Both would retain the annual reading and math
  tests outlined in No Child, but would let states
  rather than the Department of Education
  choose how to work with the specified assessments
  to measure school and teacher performance.