The U.S. Chamber reports that academic achievement for disadvantaged students has improved under the No Child Left Behind reforms. The chamber points specifically to requirements for annual assessments, public reporting of data, and accountability. The following chart tells the story.
Meanwhile, Washington Education Association members are rallying to push for higher pay and full funding of the four-year, $4.7 billion unfunded mandate imposed by Initiative 1351, narrowly adopted last fall. Among their concerns…
[WEA president Kim] Mead said the teacher-evaluation bill, which has passed the state Senate but not the House, is a distraction from the work lawmakers should be doing to comply with McCleary [the state Supreme Court full-funding of basic education opinion].