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| https://russell.house.gov/media-center/editorials/top-10-reasons-bipartisan-bicameral-proposal-replace-no-child-left-behind | Top 10 Reasons the Bipartisan, Bicameral Proposal to Replace No Child Left Behind Benefits Oklahoman Students | 2015-11-19 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Republican | House | OK | Steve Russell | R000604 | russell.house.gov | legacy | 1. Places new and unprecedented restrictions on the authority of the Secretary of Education. The agreement ends the Secretarys ability to impose requirements on states and schools through executive fiat and ends the era of conditional waivers. 2.Prohibits the Secretary of Education from forcing or coercing states into adopting Common Core. No agent of the federal government including the Secretary can interfere with the right of states to develop or change its own set of standards. 3.Ends the era of federally-mandated high-stakes testing. The agreement empowers parents by continuing annual assessments in reading and math, but it also eliminates the federally-mandated high-stakes strings attached to these assessments. 4.Eliminates the federally-mandated one-size-fits-all accountability system. The agreement repeals the overly punitive federal accountability system known as Adequate Yearly Progress or AYP and restores to state and local leaders the responsibility for holding schools accountable. 5.Repeals 49 ineffective and duplicative federal programs. The agreement helps clean up a confusing maze of K-12 education programs and requires the Secretary to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy accordingly. 6.Provides states and schools new funding flexibility. The agreement establishes a block grant with existing federal dollars that states and school districts can use to fund priorities set at the local level. 7.Holds the line on no new pre-k programs. Instead of creating a new pre-k program, the agreement relocates to the Department of Health and Human Services an existing program using existing resources to promote better coordination and alignment across state and federal pre-k initiatives. 8.Prohibits the use of federal education dollars to fund abortions. This is the first time federal education law will include a clear prohibition on the use of education dollars to fund abortion services. 9.Offers parents more school choice. The agreement supports the replication of highquality charter schools and improves the magnet school program. The agreement also empowers eligible states to let funds follow students to the schools they attend, rewarding excellent schools that enroll students who are harder to serve. 10.Provides a four year authorization of the law. A top priority for leading conservatives, a more limited reauthorization will ensure the next President has an opportunity to continue this effort to reduce the federal role and restore local control in k-12 education. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |