Station in des moines brings us more the no child left behind act is being left behind. The new law is the every Student Succeeds act, or essa. The president s signature on this new law mean the federal government will give control back to the states and individual School Districts to make sure their Education System is working. 16 28 the problems came from emphasis on testing and accountability. Roark horn is the director of the School Administrators of iowa. He says School Districts around the state will be excited to break away from the cycle of too muchtesting. 20 09 theyre not releasing total control of what needs to be done but they are releasing control of how its done and thats where iowa is well prepared to take on horn says the biggest change classrooms will new law is that tests will be used how theyre meant to be childs progress and potential. Overall its a better measure of accountability and student achievment. 20 34 i think were going to take the tenants of every child i