The reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, formerly known as No Child Left Behind and now officially known as the Every Student Succeeds Act, is a long overdue reset of the federal role in education policy.
Back in January, our union laid out four very clear goals for the reauthorization of ESEA:
• Maintain the fiscal equity provisions of the original ESEA.
• Get the federal government out of the business of teacher evaluation.
• Ensure that paraprofessional requirements remain intact.
• End the test-and-punish accountability system, creating instead one that will be more aligned with student learning and needs, and will give schools and educators the latitude to teach rather than simply require them to test
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