House and Senate Taking Up NCLB Rewrite This Week Could Result In Leftover Fireworks for Federal Education Policy

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House and Senate Taking Up NCLB Rewrite This Week Could Result In Leftover Fireworks for Federal Education Policy

This could be the most momentous week in federal education policy in the thirteen years since No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. The fact that the U.S. Senate is scheduled to take up a major rewrite of NCLB is historic in and of it itself. No new version or reauthorization of NCLB has made it through committee to action by the entire membership of the Senate in over a decade. And last week, the House Republican leadership announced that its version of NCLB--the Student Success Act--would also be brought up for a vote.