Former Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., an Every Student Succeeds Act architect, was one of the most prominent voices clamoring for more local control over K-12 when the law was wending its way through Congress.
But now Kline is worried that at least two states, Arizona and New Hampshire, have passed laws that skirt key “guardrails” in the law aimed holding schools accountable and protecting students’ civil rights.
Congress, Kline writes in a commentary for Education Week, made the conscious decision to stick with statewide tests so that parents could compare results from one school district to the next. But new laws in both states seem to fly in the face of that rule, which is a key part of the balance lawmakers were going for in writing ESSA…
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