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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will this get rid of "no child left behind"?[/quote]

How do you define NCLB in 2024?[/quote]

NCLB expired in 2015. It exists in an extremely watered down version through ESSA. This means that the federal government doesn't hold schools accountable in any meaningful way.

https://www.understood.org/en/articles/the-difference-between-the-every-student-succeeds-act-and-no-child-left-behind[/quote]

The DOE does in fact mandate a LOT of requirements. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is really burdensome to states because it requires them to develop complex accountability systems that go beyond just standardized test scores, while still holding them responsible for student achievement across diverse student subgroups, placing significant administrative pressure on state education departments and requiring them to invest resources in data collection, analysis, and reporting to meet federal requirements, even with a degree of flexibility in how they implement the law.

All that money that states spend on ESSA should be directly spent on students. Not all the administrators needed to implement this law. [/quote]

And here you're blaming Department of Ed?  There's that little word at the end of ESSA that highlights the problem with your misplaced blame, it's the word "Act" - it's legislation passed by Congress, not something that bureaucrats at Department of Ed came up with.  In fact it came from Republicans, as it was sponsored and promoted by Lamar Alexander.  And, it did exactly what Republicans wanted, to shift more of the accountability to the states rather than the federal government (NCLB). Also, most of the problem is not on the Department of Ed side, it's that STATES are inconsistent in how they are implementing it.

So once again, Democrats get the blame for a Republican initiative.[/quote]

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