House Education Chair: "Substantial Changes" ahead for NCLB

From ECS Newsblog (citing an article in Education Week):

Members of the House of Representatives want changes to No Child Left Behind, and the chairman of the chamber's education committee, Rep. George Miller, is saying he's willing to make some of them. Twenty-five House members formally presented their ideas for revising the law in a meeting with the senior members of the Education and Labor Committee. Among the ideas offered: change the method for calculating districts' and schools' yearly progress to measure student academic growth and include factors other than test scores; assess students with disabilities on the basis of their progress toward meeting goals in their individualized education programs; and figure out ways to determine whether teachers are highly qualified other than by the types of credentials they have, and give rural schools leniency on the teacher-quality rules.