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Senate education panel approves ESEA overhaul
- 10-21-2011
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By Alyson Klein/Education Week
After a long delay, the Senate education committee approved a bill Thursday night that would rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, but the measure is certain to encounter further debate on the Senate floor. The bill, sponsored by the committee's chairman, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and its ranking Republican, Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, garnered support from all of the committee's Democrats and three Republicans—Sen. Enzi, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, and Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. Sen. Harkin hopes to move the bill to the floor of the Senate before Thanksgiving, and he believes it's "possible" that Congress could approve a rewritten version of the nation's main education law before Christmas—in time to negate the need for the Obama administration’s waiver plan. The bill would change several aspects of the current ESEA, known, at least for now, as the No Child Left Behind Act. (more...)
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