History of IDEA
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Updating No Child Left Behind
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Opinion by Sen. Tom Harkin/Politico
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) is the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
When we last rewrote America’s major K-12 education law, no one had an iPhone and Facebook did not exist. The world has changed, and it is time to update the law to ensure that every child receives a great education. This is both a matter of basic fairness and civil rights — and critical to U.S. economic strength in the hypercompetitive global marketplace. For more than a half-century — since the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education — the federal government has played a vital role in advancing equity and quality in public education. It is fashionable, today, to claim that our schools and students would be better off without federal involvement in education. This view is the product of a misreading of U.S. history. (more...)
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