Sentences with phrase «signature federal reform»
Even the signature federal reform, the No Child Left Behind Act passed during the Bush administration, has failed to live up to its billing and is overdue for a revamping.
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«We need to get away from all the paperwork required under No Child Left Behind [President George W. Bush's signature reforms of elementary and secondary education, which many Republicans now view as a failure and an intrusion of federal authority into state - run education systems].»
Also in this issue: A look back at what the Obama administration's signature education reform got wrong, with lessons learned to guide states and districts in refining their teacher evaluation systems, and a warning on the limits of federally - led school reform; a proposal for how to redesign education research under the Every Student Succeeds Act; and a debate on whether there is a federal constitutional right to education.
Its signature Race to the Top program (RTT) asked states to compete for $ 4.35 billion in federal grants based on their commitment to implement a 19 - item reform agenda.
That policy, the signature education reform of the Bush administration, required schools to meet annual federal testing standards, with minimum standards increasing incrementally until schools would ultimately be required (by 2014) to have every single student test as proficient in basic subjects.