The No Child Left Behind Act is a much - maligned decade -
old federal education law that called for regular standardized tests, disaggregation of testing data by racial subgroup, and increasing sanctions for states that fail to meet proficiency standards leading up to a requirement of about 100 percent proficiency by 2014.
Like plans on paper that can falter in real life, the downfall of
the old federal education law, called No Child Left Behind, came when thousands of schools in Illinois and elsewhere were considered failures because too many students flunked state exams.
Not exact matches
The
federal education law known as ESSA (Every Student Succeeds Act) turns two years
old in December.
ESSA was signed into
law in late 2015, reauthorizing the 50 - year -
old federal Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (ESEA) that was meant to provide equal opportunity for all students.
«Unfortunately, we've been so busy with (responding to the new
federal education law), we haven't really had a chance to look into the
old data,» said Chris Janzer, who heads the school accountability office at the state
education department.
But just because the current
law is a political loser doesn't mean its replacement — which reduces the
federal role in
education policy while eliminating the
old law's unpopular performance targets for schools — is an automatic winner.
The pressure on Mr. Duncan to waive substantial parts of the 9 - year -
old federal school - accountability
law is only growing as Congress continues to drag its feet on reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, of which NCLB is the latest version.
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