Posted on 02/25/2016 3:32:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama's nominee for Education Secretary told senators Thursday that the focus of decision-making on elementary and secondary education is "rightly shifting" to the states and away from the federal government.
John B. King Jr. is poised to oversee the Education Department as it is losing some of its authority. A bipartisan education law passed by Congress and signed by Obama in December revamps the widely criticized No Child Left Behind Act, and substantially limits some of the federal government's influence ushered in by that 2002 law.
The new law bars the Education Department from telling states and local districts how to assess the performance of schools and teachers. Instead, states and districts must come up with their own goals for schools, design their own measures of achievement and progress, and decide how to turn around struggling schools. [...]
Under questioning from senators, King promised his department will adhere to the new law and its limits on federal intervention. ...
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Fill his position when a real American gets in the white house.
So what did we gain from No Child Left Behind?
What will we really gain from this revised law?
What is the federal role in education?
Why is it we’ve talked about school problems for decades, but the same ghetto schools which didn’t educate kids 30 years ago still don’t educate kids?
Is the state of public education better since Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education??
Just some things I wonder about......
Abolish the totally unnecessary (and potentially very dangerous) DOEd. America got by just fine without it for 200 years and it haan’t done one da**ed good thing for our children that our LOCAL schools can’t do
No need for any ed sec. Lib, conservative or whatever. Fire everyone in that department. Put them on road work. Something productive.
Is the state of public education better since we have a Department of Education??
Do we have better means of production and supplies of energy, since we have had a Department of Energy?
Is the status of the environment better since we have had the Environmental Protection Agency? Or has it gone too far and become counter productive??
These sorts of questions should be asked about every governmental agency and bureaucracy on a regular basis. And if such governmental agencies aren’t filling a public need then let’s not be shy about abolishing them.
If it’s shifting to states from Feds, well, then, John, we don’t need you.
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