Congress looks at replacing No Child Left Behind; Local educators hopeful


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WASHINGTON — The fight over funding for the Department of Homeland Security isn't the only department-level battle brewing at the nation's capitol.

Another deals with the Department of Education and your child's school. The Student Success Act aims to replace the existing No Child Left Behind law.

Local education leaders are hoping to get more information about the proposal. Utah Education Association President Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh doesn't know all the specifics of what it will mean financially, but said it appears promising.

“There are some things in the new act if it happens to pass, that eliminates that AYP and the arbitrary deadline for 100 percent proficiency," she said.

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Gallagher-Fishbaugh also said there are some apparent problems with the replacement law.

"Some of those things include still the over-emphasis on using test grades, school grades," she said.

Gallagher-Fishbaugh said Utah sought a waiver from the federal government over No Child Left Behind, primarily because of its requirement that schools falling short of 100 percent proficiency be labeled as failing.

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