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Friday, June 7, 2013

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Finally - What Might Happen with NCLB

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Finally - What Might Happen with NCLB:

Finally - What Might Happen with NCLB

Ed Week has a great chart showing the different ideas in Congress around NCLB.  I'll have to sit down, read it and ponder it but it would be something of a game changer.  I look forward to more dissection from the experts.   I'd love to hear what teachers think. 

(One peeve: so once again, Director Martin-Morris, after seeing a packed house during the School Board testimony and listening to impassioned speakers on Special Ed, the Center School issue, etc., completely ignored all that and went on his own way during his director comments.  That might be okay except that he is always talking about something that seems out-of-context to everyone but him.  He seems to exist, as a director, in some other non-SPS sphere.

The latest was saying something to the effect that "Congress is finally going to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act."  Great but for probably 95% of the people out there, it's NCLB. I have a feeling