Education Week – Alyson Klein
“U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will outline Monday the Obama administration’s broad principles for renewing the law currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act, including adding more resources, ensuring educator excellence, and keeping the law’s historic focus on educational equity, a senior administration official said. The secretary will remind folks that the underlying law, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, was, at its inception in 1965, and remains, at its heart, a civil rights law. Every reauthorization has sought to build on President Lyndon B. Johnson’s initial vision for a federal role in ensuring disadvantaged children get access to the resources they need to be successful, Duncan will say. (Why the history lesson? The speech is pegged to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Johnson’s “educational message” to Congress, which laid out his vision for what became the ESEA.).”(more)