{"id":1349,"date":"2015-02-03T13:05:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2024-05-03T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T16:59:47","slug":"stop-the-reauthorization-of-no-child-left-behind-every-child-ready-for-college-or-a-career-act-of-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/2015\/02\/03\/stop-the-reauthorization-of-no-child-left-behind-every-child-ready-for-college-or-a-career-act-of-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"STOP the REAUTHORIZATION of No Child Left Behind (Every Child Ready for College or a Career Act of 2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEE Article below that explains why the re-write of No Child Left Behind CEMENTS Common Core into LAW:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact the New Hampshire Congressional members and Senators using the phone numbers below, and tell them you do not support the Every Child College and Career Ready draft legislation; students\u00a0and teachers deserve real reform, not a rebrand!<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ayotte.senate.gov\/?p=offices<\/a>
\nSen. Ayotte: Phone: 202-224-3324<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.shaheen.senate.gov\/contact\/<\/a>
\nSen. Jeanne Shaheen: Ph: (202) 224-2841<\/p>\n

https:\/\/guinta.house.gov\/contact\/offices<\/a>
\nCong. Frank Guinta: Phone: (202) 225-5456<\/p>\n

http:\/\/kuster.house.gov\/contact\/offices<\/a>
\nCong. Annie Kuster: Phone: (202) 225-5206<\/p>\n

NCLB reauthorization cements Common Core into federal law<\/a><\n\nErin Tuttle<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0February 3, 2015\u00a0\u2022\u00a00 Comments<\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. Senate is fast-tracking new legislation titled the\u00a0Every Child\u00a0Ready for College or a Career Act of 2015,<\/em>\u00a0which will reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The author of the bill, Senator Lamar Alexander,\u00a0claims it\u2019s an effort to restore the power of local and state education agencies, but, in reality, it does the opposite. In fact, his bill places\u00a0more<\/em>\u00a0conditions on the way states develop their standards, assessments, and accountability systems than required under NCLB, and will cement the Common Core State Standards into federal law.<\/p>\n

Support for the reauthorization of NCLB is at an all time high, as states have argued that the federal NCLB waivers and Race to the Top grants \u00a0issued by the Obama Administration are too prescriptive and go beyond the authority granted to the U. S. Secretary of Education under the program. The problem with Senator Alexander\u2019s bill is that it doesn\u2019t undo these requirements, it simply includes them into the new law making what was once only a requirement for states seeking a waiver into a \u00a0federal mandate.<\/p>\n

For example, NCLB legislation (2002), required\u00a0states to adopt standards that:\u00a0\u2018\u2018(I) specify what children are expected to know and be able to do;\u00a0(II) contain coherent and rigorous content; and\u00a0(III) encourage the teaching of advanced skills.\u201d\u00a0This allowed states broad discretion to establish standards that best fit the needs of students in their state.<\/p>\n

In 2010, the US Secretary of Education limited this discretion when it issued NCLB waivers and Race to the Top grants.\u00a0\u00a0To qualify for these programs, states were required to adopt standards that were \u201ccollege and career ready\u201d which, in theory, sounds reasonable. In practice, however,\u00a0the specific criteria used by the US Department of Education to determine if standards were \u201ccollege and career ready\u201d was anything but reasonable and denied states their constitutional right to independently determine their own standards.<\/p>\n

The US Department of Education has defined\u00a0\u201ccollege and career ready\u201d as standards which:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c…align to the entrance requirements, without the need for academic remediation, for an institution of higher education in the State.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assurances by the heads of state public universities were made in the application for the NCLB waiver and Race to the Top grants to use the Common Core aligned tests as the \u201centrance requirements, without the need for academic remediation, for an institution of higher education in the state.\u201d \u00a0Over the past four years, public universities have been aligning their entrance requirements to the Common Core and for many universities it is already accomplished. The \u201centrance requirements\u201d are the Common Core.<\/p>\n

If Senator Alexander intended his bill to do something different, why did he \u00a0include the same language? The Every Child Ready for College or a Career Act\u00a0mandates that states adopt standards which:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201c…aligned to the entrance requirements, without the need for academic remediation, for an institution of higher education in the State.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The inclusion of this definition in the reauthorization bill no longer requires the U.S. Department of Education to issue waivers to coerce states into adopting CCSS, the Every Student College and Career Ready Act conveniently puts it into law. Senator Alexander\u2019s reauthorization bill \u00a0is nothing more than the NCLB waiver requirements rebranded as the Every Student College and Career Ready Act. If his bill passes, there will be no escaping Common Core if states want to participate in federal education programs which offer $15 billion in funding to states.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost laughable when members of Congress\u00a0talk about the tough legislation they want to pass to \u201cban\u201d Common Core and \u201cprohibit\u201d the U.S. Department of Education from coercing states to adopt specific standards; this language is meaningless. They won\u2019t have to force states to adopt Common Core, \u00a0alignment<\/em>\u00a0to them will be a requirement for participation in the lucrative federal education program. It\u2019s the same play on words used to disguise Obamacare as medicaid expansion waivers: States aren\u2019t \u201crequired\u201d to enforce Obamacare\u2019s medicaid expansion mandates to receive the program\u2019s federal funding, they just have to align their state medicaid program to the same guidelines.<\/p>\n

Government officials assume the American people are too stupid to catch on to the bait and switch surrounding the reauthorization of NCLB, and their arrogance prevents them from noticing that they aren\u2019t fooling anyone! If Congress wants to expand NCLB and place states under the Common Core regime, then say it and live with the electoral consequences. If they truly desire to cut the federal over-reach into education policy that is strangling the achievement of American students, then they should allow NCLB to sunset, and block grant\u00a0federal funding to states for education- without restrictions and federally inspired paramenters with\u00a0failed track records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEE Article below that explains why the re-write of No Child Left Behind CEMENTS Common Core into LAW: Contact the New Hampshire Congressional members and Senators using the phone numbers below, and tell them you do not support the Every Child College and Career Ready draft legislation; students\u00a0and teachers deserve real reform, not a rebrand! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[388,387,233,168,389],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-ayotte","tag-guinta","tag-kuster","tag-nochildleftbehind","tag-shaheen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}