NCLB: The Sequel, Part II

The House Education and Labor Committee released the rest of its draft of the NCLB reauthorization bill. Reviewing this bill isn't something you can put off -- Rep. George Miller said that he hopes to bring the bill before the committee this month.

The Committee draft of Title I was released a couple of weeks ago; you can find links to that part of the bill further down on this page. What's being released now are the drafts of the rest of the bill -- Titles II through XI.

Resources:
Education Week's summary of Titles II through XI
Committee summary of the bill
Full draft of Title II (Teacher Quality)
Full draft of Titles III - XI (for the stouthearted)

A small part of EdWeek's summary shows that this is a bill that should get teachers' attention:

The federal government would invest billions in improving the nation’s teaching corps by offering professional development to teachers, recruiting new ones, and providing incentives to draw good teachers to the schools that need them the most, under the latest House proposal for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act.

The draft proposal also would keep intact most of the current NCLB law’s reporting requirements on whether teachers are “highly qualified” and add new requirements that states identify the districts and schools most in need of highly qualified teachers.

Email your informed thoughts on the bill to the Committee -- before they meet later this month: mailto:ESEA.Comments@mail.house.gov