Rokita Says “Every Student Succeeds Act” Will Help Teachers and Students
(WASHINGTON D.C.) – The Senate votes this week on a dramatic rewrite of the No Child Left Behind education law. The House gave overwhelming approval this week to the Every Student Succeeds Act, with all Democrats and three-quarters of Republicans supporting it. The bill preserves required annual math and English testing beginning in third grade, but gets rid of federal achievement standards in favor of letting states set their own. Indiana Republican 4th-District Congressman Todd Rokita predicts the changes would give teachers more freedom to teach instead of shoehorning them into “teaching to the test.”