State Of The Union Doesn't Mention No Child Left Behind Rewrite Efforts

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State Of The Union Doesn't Mention No Child Left Behind Rewrite Efforts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/20/-state-of-the-union-education_n_6512000.html

Parents, teachers and policymakers who listened to Tuesday night's State of the Union address heard an earful from President Barack Obama about his intentions to retool education's bookends by making community college free, expanding child care and increasing cybersecurity for students.

Obama mentioned few specifics about K-12 education, one of his administration's top priorities during his first term. Notably, the president mentioned not one word directly about one of his education secretary's priorities for 2015: rewriting the much-maligned No Child Left Behind Act, the Bush-era school accountability law. Obama also failed to mention the words teacher and testing.

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K-12 has not been the focus of the president's state of the union proposals for several years.

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There is a Senate HELP Committee hearing Wednesday on testing, current (promised in 2008) to "fix NCLB" ... not sure if "race to the top" will be addressed, doubtful.

Aside from things like mounds of testing that lacks validity and reliability, teacher union dismantling, tons of un- and under-funded schools, charter school money flying around with NO accountability, worst teacher morale that I've seen in 30 years ... oh the state of K-12 education is great.

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