United Opt Out Writes a Letter about NCLB to Senator Lamar Alexander

And this is why the situation in D.C. is so very tricky for folks to understand. There are far too many charter school supporters involved to make any permanent changes. This is why ALL parents need to OPT OUT NOW. If you don’t turn the key, the car will never start. This needs to happen NOW!!!

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United Opt Out sent a letter to Senator Lamar Alexander, who chairs the HELP (Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions) Committee in the Senate. Senator Alexander intends to rewrite No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which was originally called the Elementary and Secondary Education Act when it was first passed in 1965. At that time, the law was passed to send federal aid to poor districts. It said nothing about testing and accountability. But NCLB turned the federal law into a high-stakes testing mandate. Senator Alexander conducted his first hearing on January 21 and plans another hearing on January 27. Senator Alexander proposed two options in  his draft legislation: option 1 was to replace annual testing with grade span testing; option 2 was to keep annual high-stakes testing (the status quo). UOO is opposed to high-stakes testing in the federal law, period. (So am I.)

Here is UOO’s letter:

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