Congress is starting to discuss reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), and we need your help to make sure that they do it right.

The last time Congress reauthorized ESEA, they passed No Child Left Behind. Congress can’t get it wrong again. The stakes are too high for students, educators, and schools.

Educators and parents need to ask Congress to propose a bill designed to actually help students and educators?

The Senate is already off to a bad start. Their committee bill:

1. Relies heavily on test scores instead of multiple measures of school performance


2. Prescribes top-down models of school turnaround for struggling schools that are not based on research, don’t work, and ignore promising, locally-developed ideas to help students


3. Takes away teachers’ rights to have input into their own evaluation systems

Click here to remind Senators that educators know what works in classrooms and that it’s time that they listen to us.

We need to tell them that educators are aware of what they are doing, we disapprove, and we want them to make changes NOW.