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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Are you advocating for the federal government to just give out money without understanding how it is spent or what is working? States are free to not receive federal money if they find the accountability too burdensome.[/quote]

Not OP, but I'm advocating for the feds to stop wasting money on "education" and let states experiment.  All the federal dollars have not improved outcomes, so why keep throwing good money after bad, especially with a huge debt.

The truth is that about half of kids should stop math after 8th grade.  There's no point teaching algebra to stupid people.  We only lack the courage to test the kids and separate the smart from stupid.  [/quote]

I have yet to see much positive come out of states experimenting - Florida abandoned conventional sex ed and taught abstinence-only and teenage pregnancy rates spiked.  We've seen red states teach a completely revisionist version of the Civil War which completely denies that slavery had anything to do with it.

It's also amazing how people who say "you don't need to go to college, you can make good money in the trades" suggesting not teaching algebra in high school.  Algebra and geometry are actually pretty important in many of the trades, like calculating the materials you will need for a job, figuring out angles to make things fit and so on.  Sure, you could be an uneducated "helper" working for a plumber or electrician or whatever else, but that's not where the money in the trades is, and you'll never be able to be that successful in the trades without having enough literacy and math skills to be able to do things like read a building code, being able to size the components you need based on calculations, being able to read a blueprint and work up a bill of materials from it and so on.[/quote]

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