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No-Child Law Is a Highlight of Hearing on Education

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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is presiding over the rollout of the largest competitive grant program in his department’s history, a vast expansion of the government’s direct loan program for college students and sweeping new expenditures on failing schools, teacher quality and other big initiatives.

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So far, the administration has outlined only its general intentions for changing the law. Those include replacing the current school rating system, built around the requirement that schools make “adequate yearly progress” toward a 2014 deadline for having all students proficient in reading and math. A new goal, the administration has said, would be for all students to leave school “college and career ready.”

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In Indiana, the budget is tight, the governor has cut back, we see schools laying off teachers, we see them closing down schools. And we come out here and we hear how we’re going to spend money this, spend money that. There’s an increasing disconnect between Washington and the grass roots. -- Mark Souder