Rejected
NEA President Reg Weaver, at the House Committee on Education and Labor’s hearings on Monday: “We are not able to support the discussion draft as currently written. We are hopeful that the Committee will take the time to make meaningful changes.”
The Title I draft is still too focused on high stakes testing, punishments, labeling of children, and unfunded federal mandates, Weaver said. And NEA cannot support any mandated-pay-for-test-scores program, proposed in the Title II draft.
Links from NEA.org:
- Video of Weaver’s testimony (5:06, Windows Media Player). Also available on YouTube.
- Weaver’s Full Testimony Submitted to the Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives
- NEA’s news release: “Nation’s Largest Education Association Urges House Committee to Reject Draft Language for Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind Law”
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September 12, 2007 at 7:00 pm
Be sure and see where your presidential candidate stands on the NCLB issue, better yet pose that very question to them
example of submission by gifted 4th grade student who is dissatisfied with school…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BjdaPX3vXE