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Key ed. groups to Harkin: Let's slow down on ESEA
- 10-17-2011
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By Michele McNeil/Education Week
Five key education groups, including the National Education Association and the American Association of School Administrators, are urging Sen. Tom Harkin to put the brakes on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. They have four key concerns, outlined in an Oct. 16 letter to Harkin, the Iowa Democrat who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and the ranking Republican Michael Enzi. The other three groups that signed the letter are the national associations representing local school boards, and elementary and secondary school principals. Two of those concerns they basically share with the state chiefs: that states need more leeway in designing school turnaround models and measures of student growth. A third concern is, no surprise, that the bill goes too far in mandating states to revamp teacher and principal evaluation systems. (more...)
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