The
House of Representatives will vote this week on The Student Success Act (H.R.
5) to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act—No Child Left
Behind (ESEA-NCLB). The time is now for Congress to hear your voice, Take Action!
Congress
needs to hear that PTA supports:
- Safeguarding
all family engagement provisions, modeled—in part—from the Family
Engagement in Education Act.
- Adequate
authorization levels to support critically important programs.
- The
exclusion of any provision that would create or lead to a private school
voucher, including Title I portability funding.
- Providing
access to well-rounded education curricula for all students.
- Safeguarding
and improving equity protections and dedicated funding streams for
disadvantaged populations.
- Developing
ambitious, yet appropriate, state-driven accountability systems with
growth and performance goals to replace Adequate Yearly Progress.
- Guaranteeing
that all students receive quality instruction from well-prepared teachers
and pupil support personnel.
- Improving
state longitudinal data systems and sharing of student data.
