Congress finally close to vote on new education law
By JENNIFER C. KERR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress is finally close to a vote to rewrite the outdated and highly criticized No Child Left Behind education law.
A bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers has approved compromise legislation. That paves the way for a vote in the House during the first week of December, and in the Senate a few days later.
The measure would maintain the education law’s federally-required annual tests. Tests are given in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school. But it would dramatically lessen the federal role in education policy by returning to states the power to determine whether and how to use those tests to assess schools, teachers and students.
It also would require states to intervene to help the nation’s lowest-performing schools.
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