ESEA Resources and News

Duncan to Congress: Giving States Flexibility is Working (February 7, 2013)

NCLB is the latest reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). And Duncan said that NCLB has become a well-intended, but overly-prescriptive law that created incentives to lower standards, encouraged teaching to the test, mislabeled many schools as failures, and prescribed a one-size-fits-all accountability system that failed to support local solutions and innovation.

State Superintendent Torlakson seeks relief from NCLB sanctions (August 23, 2011)

Obama Must Leave Education Law Changes to Congress, Leaders Say (June 13, 2011): Congressional leaders of both parties said lawmakers, not the Education Department, should fix the main U.S. public-education law. 

Recommendations for Improving ESEA (April 15, 2011): Helping to ensure that every child graduates college- and career-ready is a top priority for California.

ESEA Reauthorization Recommendations: State Role (April 15, 2011)
Policy Recommendations, Rationale for Improvements and California Overview.

ESEA Reauthorization Recommendations: Innovative Schools (April 15, 2011): Policy Recommendations, Rationale for Improvements and California Overview.

ESEA Reauthorization Recommendations: Expanded Learning Opportunities (April 15, 2011): Policy Recommendations, Rationale for Improvements and California Overview.

ESEA Reauthorization Recommendations: Educational Supports and Community, Parent Involvement (April 15, 2011): Policy Recommendations, Rationale for Improvements and California Overview.

ESEA Reauthorization Recommendations: Accountability (April 15, 2011): Policy Recommendations, Rationale for Improvements and California Overview.

Obama Seeks to Make No Child Left Behind more Flexible (January 26, 2011): North Chevy Chase Elementary School, with a demanding curriculum, strong faculty and high student test scores, meets nobody’s definition of a failure. Nobody’s, that is, except the federal government’s.