Obama Calls for Sweeping Overhaul in Education Law

The Obama administration has called for a law proposing to reshape the structure that teachers teach to test, made the curriculm smaller and also labeled one in three American schools as failing. This plan is to affect almost 100,000 public schools. The admin would replace the schools pass/fail system with things that would reflect an individual students growth such as attendance, graduation rates and learning, not just test scores. The admin also proposed that all students should go through high school and on to college and this goal is expected to be met by 2020. Also mentioned in the article was that schools that were performing well would receive rewards and schools that weren't would be intervened by the state and be assisted in how to perform better. There would be teacher evaluations on how effective an instructor is in teaching and instructors would not just be given preference because of their credentials. The administration has added $100 million to the 20110 budget for schools to offer a broader variety of courses/