Legislative Proposals
FEA Recommendations for Improving ESEA/NCLB -
Summary and Full
FEA's revised 2011 two-page summary of its
recommendations on the reauthorization of ESEA is here.
FEA's detailed recommendations, submitted to the Senate HELP committee in 2010,
is here.
New: February 21, 2012
Members of the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) have studied Rep. John Kline’s legislation for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). We applaud some of the steps Mr. Kline proposes in the “Student Success Act” and the “Encouraging Innovation and Successful Teachers Act.” However, we have serious concerns with other important parts of his legislation.
See more of the letter in repsonse to the legislation here: http://www.edaccountability.org/Kline_bill_FEA_letter.pdf
September 20, 2011: What Should Congress Do About Teacher Evaluation? A Public Letter from the Forum on Educational Accountability.
FEA Recommendations for
Successful School Turnaround Efforts
See the FEA statement,
"A Research- and Experience-Based Turnaround Process," that focuses on
flexible local use of elements common to school improvement, and that
Congress should include in ESEA/NCLB reauthorization.
See Ratner and
Neill, "Common Elements of Successful Turnarounds: Research and
Experience," for analysis and summary of research on successfully
improving schools.
FEA
legislative recommendations on NCLB reauthorization (PDF)
Legislative
recommendations for the Higher Education Act, 2007.
20 February 2008
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions seeks
to mark up a reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind/Elementary and
Secondary Education Act early this spring.
See the letter sent to Senators from the FEA urging that there be
proper time for review of the legislation between steps in the process
to be sure that the principles of the
Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB by the FEA are addressed in any
changes to the legislation. See the Press
release.
7 January 2008
In a letter
delivered to the offices of all U.S. Senators and Representatives on the
6th anniversary of NCLB being signed into law, the Forum on Educational
Accountability wrote, “the message is loud and clear . . . the law is
not working to substantially improve learning for the students Congress
most intended to help.”
See the letter
See the Press Release
4 December 2007
See
a letter sent from the FEA to Congress today urging them to overhaul
NCLB
3 October 2007
FEA submitted a letter to the members of
congress reminding them that any new reauthorization of NCLB must solve
the major problems in the law and meet the criteria established in the
Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB and by FEA in its legislative
recommendations.
See the letter
See the press release
19 September 2007
Most major civil rights organizations
support the use of multiple indicators and multiple assessments,
according to this FEA letter to Congress.
See the press release here.
19 September 2007
Action Alert! Keep Pressure on
Congress.
The signers of the Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left
Behind are having a major impact! Soon the House Education Committee
will discuss and vote on a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act/NCLB.
Also see a two page summary of the
issue from the FEA.
18 September 2007
FEA
recommendations on professional development in response to House Education
Committee discussion draft, Sept. 18, 2007.
10 September 2007
Two one page documents compare the House
education committee draft to the FEA proposals. A
general Title I comparison is here, a
comparison of professional development is here.
6 September, 2007
FEA submitted its
response to the House Education
Committee discussion draft on reauthorization of ESEA.
5 September, 2007
The
FEA sent separate letters to the House and Senate today calling for major
improvements to NCLB. The House letter applauds the positive changes that
have been incorporated into the latest 'discussion draft' of NCLB, but
urges additional changes based upon the principles in the Joint
Statement and FEA legislative
recommendations to ensure that the federal role becomes strongly
supportive of genuine school improvement.
See the FEA Press Release
about the letters.
See the House letter.
See the Senate letter.
13, August, 2007
A letter sent today to the leadership of the House and Senate Education
committees calls
on Congress to
include “multiple forms of assessment” and “multiple measures or
indicators of student progress” in legislation currently being drafted to
overhaul NCLB.
See the letter (PDF)
See the Press Release.
7, August, 2007
Nearly two
dozen major civil rights and disability advocacy groups today called on
Congress to include “multiple forms of assessment” and “multiple measures
or indicators of student progress” in legislation currently being drafted
to overhaul NCLB.
See the press release in HTML. (or in
PDF)
See the letter delivered to
the House and Senate Education Committees.
2, August 2007
See the latest Action Alert on keeping up the pressure on Congress to make
the needed changes to NCLB
See the
new summary of the
key points sought by FEA in
its legislative recommendations, based on the
Joint Statement.
16 July 2007
See a letter sent from
the FEA to Ed Committee Chairman George Miller reacting to an earlier
letter he sent
to freshmen members of congress.
9 July 2007
See a letter sent from the FEA
to congress today urging members to make improvements to NCLB before
its pending reauthorization.
22 June 2007
The FEA sends a letter to Congress
rebutting claims by Sec. Spellings and Education Trust about Expert Panel
on Assessment report.
See the
letter.
