There is no doubt that CEA leadership feels that it has done an effective job pushing back against the onslaught brought on by the politically - driven Common Core State Standards initiative, the unproven and rushed change
in standardized testing requirements, the systematic yet false narrative of failing schools and ineffective teachers, and the questionable storing and sharing of private, personal, and confidential information on students and their families.
The two programs were seen by many conservatives as executive overreach, and when ESEA was reauthorized in 2015 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA),
NCLB standardized testing requirements were kept, but the evaluation and accountability systems meant to respond to the results of those tests became the responsibility of individual states.
WASHINGTON — DURING a recent hearing by the Senate Education Committee, its Republican chair, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, questioned whether the federal government's
annual standardized testing requirement, embodied in the No Child Left Behind law of 2001, may be too much.
As for the curriculum you teach, you may have some freedoms about how you present the material, but for many subjects and grade levels the curriculum is determined by the school and by government legislation with an emphasis
on standardized testing requirements.
NEW YORK, NY — In a letter to the Members of Congress representing his 37th Senate District and New York's U.S. Senators, Senator George Latimer (D - Westchester) urged a revamping of
the standardized testing requirements of the «No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.»
North Carolina's voucher scheme, now on hold while the courts consider lawsuits challenging its constitutionality, includes
no standardized testing requirements for the private schools to allow parents or education officials to see how the students and schools are performing and how taxpayer money is being spent.
But in Florida, which has
a standardized test requirement, only 64 percent of private schools participate in the state's tax credit scholarship program, and only 53 percent of private schools in Rhode Island enrolled students with scholarships from its corporate tax credit program.
According to the federal complaint,
the standardized test requirement does not have a bearing on a teacher's job performance, nor is it necessary for the job.
While all 50 states include economics education in required coursework for students, only 16 include it in
their standardized testing requirements.
Generally, only transfer students and / or non-traditional students» requests to waive
the standardized testing requirement are considered.