The committee on Education Workforce will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays full committee hearing. I thank our panel of witnesses and our Committee Members for joining todays discussion on the implementation of the every Student Succeeds act, essa. Essa can be considereded a milestone for k12 policy because it was a monumental shift in the role and states and School Districts would have in the future of education and it sought to achieve two specific goals for k12 education and autonomy and accountability. States and School Districts were given new independence when creating a k12 Education Program that works best for their own students, ending a washington knows best approach to education. Additionally, essa prohibitively influenced the states adoption of particular standards and repealed federal mandates for teacher performance and protected a states right to opt out of federal Education Programs. Part of this is goal for state and School District autonomy was to for
The Biden administration received high marks for elevating key strategies to help students rebound from pandemic learning loss — addressing chronic absenteeism, offering high-impact tutoring and extending learning afterschool and during the summer. “These three strategies have one central goal — giving students more time and more support to succeed,” U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona […]
President of Barbados, Her Excellency The Most Honourable Dame Sandra Mason, presents Barbados’ newest centenarian, Collie Lovell, affectionately known as “ .
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