Running head historical perspective and thanks to

Running Head: Historical Perspective
And thanks to NCLB, every child will learn” (Education, 2005). States would have to develop a
challenging curriculum in english, math, and science. Students would then have an assessment
over what they have learned trough out the school year. The federal government also created
some standards in which states would have to base their academic programs from. State boards
of education must analyze the data reported to them from the assessments and school districts to
determine which school districts are not in compliance. The states may intervene with these
school districts and may work more closely with them to bring the school up to standards. The
Act also allows parents the opportunity to take their children out of the low performing schools
and place their child in schools that are performing on or above state standards. The government
under this act also offered to parents for their children supplemental educational services.
More recently President Barack Obama and his education administration have sought
to change NCLB and implement the Student Success Act (SSA). SSA seeks to educate children
past elementary school and high school. This act implies that the curriculum should not only be
for current standards but preparing students for post secondary education and the workforce.
The SSA planned to accomplish this by “meeting the educational needs of low- achieving
children in our Nation’s highest-poverty schools; closing the achievement gap between high- and
low-performing children, challenging States and local educational agencies to embrace
meaningful, evidence-based education reform, while encouraging state and local innovation’’
(Kline, 2012). The purpose of SSA was to not only reform NCLB but to also allow states to have
control over their education standards. This bill seeks to not only hold low performing school
districts accountable but the state boards of education as well.