As the presidential race started out, Common Core was seen by many as a divisive issue in the Republican party. Jeb Bush’s full-throated support of the program was seen as a vulnerability by many primary watchers. As the race has gone however, Common Core and some other domestic policy issues have taken a backseat as Donald Trump brought immigration to the fore and events on the international scene, such as terrorist attacks, at home and abroad, have put foreign affairs more in the spotlight.
That does not mean however that legislators in Washington D.C. are not working on certain issues. Last week, the House voted to approve the Every Child Achieves Act on a bipartisan vote of 359-64. The bill is meant to amend the controversial No Child Left Behind Act, pushed through during the first term of George W. Bush. According to the official summary, the Every Childs Achieves Act, or the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), “provides states with increased flexibility and responsibility for developing accountability systems, deciding how federally required tests should be weighed, selecting additional measures of student and school performance, and implementing teacher evaluation systems.”
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