{"id":107843,"date":"2015-12-06T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bennet-lauds-progress-on-education-bill\/"},"modified":"2015-12-06T07:01:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T14:01:00","slug":"bennet-lauds-progress-on-education-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bennet-lauds-progress-on-education-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennet lauds progress on education bill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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For the first time in 14 years, a new education bill is set to emerge from the U.S. Congress that will reshape the federal government\u2019s role in overseeing K-12 education.<\/p>\n

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., who played an important role in helping to craft the current legislation, applauded House passage of the bill Wednesday to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. No Child Left Behind, the latest iteration of ESEA, expired in 2007.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s vote in the House brings us one step closer to ending No Child Left Behind\u2019s top-down, one-size-fits-all approach and re-empowering those closest to our kids to make decisions about their education,\u201d Bennet said soon after the legislation passed the House in a 359-64 vote.<\/p>\n

Bennet was a member of a joint House and Senate conference committee, established in mid-November, that was tasked with reconciling differences between education legislation passed this year by both the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

The conference committee quickly moved to approve a bipartisan framework for updating No Child Left Behind.<\/p>\n

Bennet, who previously served as superintendent of Denver Public Schools and is a current member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, worked to incorporate a number of provisions into the final reauthorization bill.<\/p>\n

According to information from Bennet\u2019s office, these include granting states more autonomy with designing annual accountability tests, ensuring more transparency on school funding in order to identify inequalities and providing rural school districts with greater resources to educate their students.<\/p>\n

The new legislation will also direct states and school districts to use targeted interventions to improve the lowest-performing schools in the bottom 5 percent of state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill represents meaningful progress to help our students, our teachers and schools across Colorado,\u201d Bennet said. \u201cPassing this bill has been a long time coming, and it\u2019s encouraging we\u2019ve been able to do it with overwhelming bipartisan support.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senate will take up the legislation in the coming weeks, and it\u2019s expected to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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