I knew Mercedes could find this! Excellent work!
Both the House and Senate have passed proposed authorizations of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, and both House and Senate versions have opt-out provisions that allow for states to avoid being penalized for students whose parents opt them out of federally-mandated testing.
That’s right: Both House and Senate versions of the ESEA reauthorization provide a means for students who opt out to not be counted against the “95 percent” that the state is supposed to test as a condition for receiving Title I funding.
They just go about it differently.
I realize all of this can be difficult to follow. In this post, I hope to make the issue clear.
Opt-out and ECAA
Here’s how the parental opt-out provision works in the Senate’s Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) of 2015:
Paragraph (2) of Title I, entitled, “Academic Assessments,” (page 36 of the ECAA draft linked…
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