US Senate Votes to Repeal Teacher Training Law

The U.S. Senate has voted to repeal an Obama-era education regulation that governs teacher training and evaluation. On Wednesday, the senate voted 59-40 in favor of rescinding the rule, which comes as part of the Every Student Succeeds Act, a successor to the No Child Left Behind law. The rules, issued in October 2016, stipulate that federally-funded teacher preparation programs must be evaluated on the academic outcomes of those teachers' students. Some lawmakers criticized the...

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