On December 10, President Obama, with a stroke of a pen, made it official: the No Child Left Behind era is over. Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), one day after it was passed by an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate, which followed broad passage in the House last week.
The Every Student Succeeds Act is the seventh reauthorization of the landmarkElementary and Secondary Education Act, first passed in 1965, and the first since 2002 when NCLB became law. This reauthorization has been years in the making and suffered through several false starts, but it picked up steam in 2015 as opposition to the rigid and punitive “test and punish” regimen imposed by NCLB intensified andseveral education groups, including the NEA, lobbied Congress to get the job done.
Author Contributor: Tim Walker at http://neatoday.org/authors/tim-walker/
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