http:\/\/www.educationviews.org\/problems-child-achieves-act-ecaa\/<\/a><\/p>\nThe following is a list of problems with the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA):<\/p>\n
1. The ECAA is too long; at 792 pages, the bill is 122 pages longer than the burdensome No Child Left Behind law (NCLB).
\n2. The new language in the ECAA does not restrict the U.S. Department of Education (USED) because:
\n a. The language simply replicates existing protections.
\n b. The proposed provisions fail to provide an enforcement mechanism for states.
\n c. The ECAA aligns the states to the same College-and Career-Ready Standards as in the Common Core Standards.
\n3. The ECAA continues the same USED master-servant relationship, requiring states to submit education plans to USED.
\n4. The ECAA retains the federal testing mandates, continuing the NCLB \u201cteach-to-the-test\u201d environment.
\n5. The ECAA requires standards to be aligned with federal workforce standards and early childhood standards.
\n6. If a state fails to meet the requirements of a listed program, the USED can force the state to make the mandated changes.
\n7. ECAA requires states to have College-and Career-Ready Standards, code language for Common Core Standards.
\n8. ECAA requires states to align to the Common Core Standards.
\n9. ECAA penalizes schools that do not enforce that 95 % of their students take the state assessment.
\n10. ECAA dictates particular tests that are very expensive; the tests inject intrusive psychological data collection and profiling into the assessments.
\n11. ECAA maintains NCLB\u2019s requirement that states produce individual student interpretive reports that contain behavioral skills.
\n12. All states could be required to submit detailed student profiles to USED.
\n13. ECAA allows NAEP to implement the probing of students\u2019 psychological traits (e.g., \u201cmindsets,\u201d \u201cgrit,\u201d etc.).
\n14. ECAA eliminates NCLB\u2019s prohibition against very personal items (family beliefs and attitudes, psychological data).
\n15. ECAA details the framework of the states\u2019 accountability systems.
\n16. ECAA extends the tentacles of federal control into public preschools.
\n17. ECAA contains Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Grants. This includes childcare and Head Start, but the grants expire in three years. Even though early childhood programs have little proven educational benefit, the government bureaucrats will gain influence over very young children.
\n18. ECAA requires statewide preschools to align with federal standards under Head Start and Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG).
\n19. ECAA includes \u201cschool climate\u201d formula grants to force students to adopt certain world-views.
\n20. ECAA includes formula grants for \u201cextended learning opportunities\u201d to ensure children spend more time at school and less time with their families.
\n21. ECAA fulfills Arne Duncan\u2019s desire to make schools \u201c21st-century community learning centers.\u201d This fosters reliance on the government schools rather than on families or churches.<\/p>\n
Source: This list was compiled from \u201cThe Every Child Achieves Act \u2013 A Wolf in Sheep\u2019s Clothing,\u201d by American Principles in Action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Federal Education Bills \u2013 Reauthorization of ESEA House Bill HR 5 \u2013 Student Success Act (SSA) passed 218 \u2013 213. Senate Bill S 1177 \u2013 Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) passed 81 \u2013 17. Next Steps — The House and Senate must write a Conference Report to reconcile the two bills. There is some hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[623,622,619,245,621,620,168,470],"class_list":["post-2269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-action","tag-anne-kuster","tag-ecaa","tag-frankguinta","tag-jeanne-shaheen","tag-kellyayotte","tag-nochildleftbehind","tag-reauthorization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopcommoncorenh.org\/sccnh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}