When Milwaukee was only a few years into its choice program, the school board did something it had never done before -
it enacted standards for children to attain in math and reading.
Not exact matches
«I don't really like doing this, but if it will help raise money
for Alex's cause and keep his memory alive, I'll do it... I want to know that I've done everything I can to prevent this and keep the
children safe, and I know that I can do it if we just
enact standards and put these systems in place.»
OPERATIVE PARA 2 (d) DELETE this whole para: to implement, through national legislation, the Codex Guidelines on Formulated Complementary Foods
for Older Infants and Young
Children and other relevant Codex
standards and guidelines, and to ensure that arrangements are in place and that adequate resources are available to
enact, monitor and enforce such legislation;
Federal policy, beginning in 1994, pushed states to develop
standards and tests in the first place, and No
Child Left Behind,
enacted in 2002, doubled down on these mandates, requiring states to disaggregate test results
for numerous groups and sanction low - performing schools.
The Obama administration's implicit support
for states
enacting Common Core, embedded through both Race to the Top and the No
Child waiver gambit, is only the most - recent step in moving away from the patchwork of
standards and curricula (often developed by teachers on their own in slapdash fashion) that has dominated American public education
for most of the past two centuries.
«I don't really like doing this, but if it will help raise money
for Alex's cause and keep his memory alive, I'll do it... I want to know that I've done everything I can to prevent this and keep the
children safe, and I know that I can do it if we just
enact standards and put these systems in place.»
The Republican revolt against the Common Core can be traced to President Obama's embrace of it, particularly his linking the adoption of similar
standards to states» eligibility
for federal education grants and to waivers from No
Child Left Behind, the national education law
enacted by President George W. Bush.