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Confused By The No Child Left Behind Rewrite? Here’s A Cheat Sheet

    We occasionally attempt to fill you in on what’s happening with No Child Left Behind – the nation’s cornerstone education law, which is due for reauthorization this year – but this time, we’ll leave it to Education Week.

    EdWeek’s Politics K-12 bloggers have compiled a list of everything you ever wanted (and needed) to know about what could become the new No Child Left Behind if and when Congress nails down a rewrite to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. Check out how the U.S. Senate and House bills compare in key policy areas (think testing, standards, accountability, etc.), how they stack up against No Child Left Behind and the Obama administration’s waivers that states like Indiana currently operate under.

    The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have passed their own bills to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Here’s how the bills compare in key policy areas, and how they stack up against the No Child Left Behind Act-the current law-and the Obama administration’s NCLB waivers.

    Read more at: www.edweek.org

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