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Home  /  Blog • Laws  /  Every Child Achieves Act Passes Senate
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23 July 2015

Every Child Achieves Act Passes Senate

Written by Kath Thoresen
Blog, Laws esea, legal & laws, nclb Comments are off

every childLast Thursday the U.S. Senate approved the Every Child Achieves Act, its re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
The 81-17 vote indicated a continuation of the widely bipartisan effort by the Senate to adopt an education law that members of both parties can stand behind.With its passage, the Senate will now need to reach a compromise on a final bill that will require approval from the House, which voted on its Student Success Act along a sharp partisan divide, and a Senate supermajority, followed by a signature from President Barack Obama, to become law.

Last renewed during the presidency of George W. Bush as “No Child Left Behind,” ESEA is the definitive educational law of the land.

Should the Senate and House reach a compromise on a bill that ultimately becomes law, No Child Left Behind’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to education will become a thing of the past, with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s federal influence significantly limited. The U.S. Department of Education would no longer be able to mandate national standards to states, which would have more agency over when they test and how those tests (and other metrics of states’ choosing) are used in accountability measures.

Among notable amendments considered during the Senate’s debate were:

Additional student privacy protections by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who had previously co-sponsored a standalone bipartisan student privacy bill with Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA).

A “Pay for Success” program proposed by Hatch, expanding a Utah program providing funding for districts, non-profits, and small businesses to propose evidence-based educational programs.

Accountability measures from Sens. Chris Murphy (D-CT), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Durbin (D-IL) that would require states to “assess school performance based on real and measurable results” with additional focus on historically disadvantaged groups of students.

A rejected measure from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) that would have prohibited harassment and bullying of LGBT students.

A rejected climate change education mandate from Markey.

 

Kath Thoresen

Katharine brings over fifteen years of customer service trouble shooting, process analysis and training experience to her position of Operations Manager at Oases Online. She's responsible for training new customers, providing assistance, guidance and tutorials to existing customers.

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