House to vote on No Child Left Behind rewrite
by Jennifer C. Kerr
Associated Press
December 2, 2015
The House is ready to vote Wednesday on a long-sought rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law that would roll back the federal government’s authority to push academic standards and tell schools how to improve.
The legislation, a compromise reached by House and Senate negotiators, would continue the No Child law’s requirement for annual reading and math testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school. But it would shift back to the states the decision-making power over how to use students’ performance on the tests to assess teachers and schools.
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