WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee on Thursday endorsed continuing the federally required annual testing of students under the No Child Left Behind education law.
With Congress trying to update the President George W. Bush-era law, debate has centered on the requirement that states test students in reading and math in grades three to eight and again in high school.
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On Wednesday, Reps. Chris Gibson, R-N.Y., and Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., said they were reintroducing a bill that would replace the annual mandate with a requirement for testing just once each in elementary, middle and high school.
On the Senate side, Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has said he’s open to discussion over whether the testing mandate should remain. He has said he wants to get a bill to the Senate floor in late February.
