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No Child Left Behind bills proliferate after Obama announces waiver plan
- 10-05-2011
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By Joy Resmovits/Huffington Post
In the two-and-a-half weeks since President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced ways in which states could overhaul No Child Left Behind without Congress's consent, lawmakers have introduced several bills that would alter the sweeping federal education law. The latest bill, introduced Tuesday by Colorado's Democratic senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, would shift the measurement of student exam performance, moving from a model based on the raw number of students who pass math and reading tests to a "growth model" that would measure student growth over time. (more...)
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