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What should — and shouldn’t — be in Senate No Child Left Behind bill
- 10-07-2011
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Guest blog by Monty Neill/Washington Post
This Tuesday, leaders of the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are expected to introduce a “base bill” draft for the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind, the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. After several days of public comment, the committee will hold a “markup” session in which they consider amendments to the draft. The committee leadership proposal will reflect core agreements among Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), subcommittee chair Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), ranking member Mike Enzi (WY) and ranking subcommittee member Lamar Alexander (R-TN). It likely will provoke many amendments, in order to address topics the leadership has not agreed upon and to fix at least some of what are likely to be major flaws. Some “fixes” will try to make the new bill look more like NCLB. Others could lead to important improvements. (more...)
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