Sentences with phrase «federal testing mandates»
The excessive federal testing mandates were absurd and many states made it worse.
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Parents, teachers unions, and conservatives rallied together for a rollback of federal testing mandates.
But Obama directed the Education Department to make it easier for states to satisfy federal testing mandates and he urged states and districts to use factors beyond testing to assess student performance.
At DFER we partnered with the civil rights community and with congressional Democrats to preserve federal testing mandates in national education policy through the recently enacted Every Student Succeeds Act.
The annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup (PDK / Gallup) poll released this morning found that nearly seven in ten of all adults who said they were familiar with NCLB believe the federal testing mandate is not helping schools.
It is time to drive a stake into the heart of the federal testing mandate.