| From The Council for Exceptional Children over on CEC Policy Insider. |
Tomorrow, the House Education and the Workforce Committee
will consider the Student Success Act (H.R. 5),
legislation which proposes dramatic changes to the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act/No Child Left Behind, introduced by Chairman John Kline (R-MN)
along with every republican on the Committee.
While H.R. 5 eliminates adequate yearly progress and maintains disaggregating student achievement data so that we know how students with disabilities are performing – two CEC supported provisions, our list of concerns with the bill is long:
- Weaken accountability systems for students with disabilities;
- Mandate overly prescriptive teacher evaluation systems;
- Eliminate highly qualified (Read more...)





