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Spellings’ Advice to Duncan: Keep NCLB’s Accountability

January 13, 2009 1 min read
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In The Washington Post today, her prospective successor to keep NCLB. If you’ve heard her speak in the past two years, you wouldn’t learn anything new. Test scores are up, she writes, especially among poor and minority children. The backlash against NCLB’s accountability rules, she writes, “speak[s] to the harsh truths it reveals.”

NCLB can be improved, she says, and she’s all for it. But she doesn’t want to undermine its “core accountability provisions,” she writes. She doesn’t say it, but from past statements, she probably means the goal for universal proficiency by the end of the 2013-14 school year; annual assessment; and disaggregation of student scores into subgroups representing races, ethnic minorities, and participation in programs for special education and English-language learners.

She also says there’s a unique coalition that supports the law, led by civil rights activists and business leaders. What she doesn’t say is whether she’ll be a public spokeswoman for the law after Jan. 20. I’m betting she will be.

P.S. In yesterday’s Post, to Arne Duncan. Like Spellings’ op-ed, much of it was predictable. But Michael Dannenberg’s offered a fresh idea. The a horse-trade: Win the teacher unions’ support for teacher-pay initiatives with multi-billion-dollar increases for NCLB. Politically, it may be possible. Financially, wait and see.

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A version of this news article first appeared in the NCLB: Act II blog.

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