Alexander Releases Competing NCLB Overhaul Bill. The New York Times (6/6, Rich, Subscription Publication) reports that Lamar Alexander, ranking GOP member of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, will on Thursday introduce a bill to reauthorize No Child Left Behind which signals “a preference for a much smaller role for the federal government in public schooling.” The Times notes that the bill comes “two days after” HELP Chairman Tom Harkin “released a 1,150-page education bill.” Alexander’s bill “would allow states to devise curriculum standards, tests, school rating systems and consequences for schools that fail to meet state goals with far fewer guidelines than are included in the Harkin bill.” The bill “encourages, but would not require, states to set up teacher evaluation systems,” and backs away from mandating turnaround measures for failing schools.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:58:24 +0000