President signs K-12 education bill into law

Press Release

President Obama today signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act, a bill to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and replace the existing law known as No Child Left Behind.

The rewrite -- which hasn't been done since 2001 -- will move states beyond the stringent, outdated policies of No Child Left Behind, help reduce the amount of testing in our nation's schools, and give more decision-making power back to states and districts.

"Today is a triumphant day," Polis said. "This morning, I joined President Obama as he signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law and put the nearly 15-year era of No Child Left Behind officially in the past. Every student and every school in the country has been affected by the well-intentioned, but outdated policies of No Child Left Behind. Today, we finally replaced it with a law built on the principle that we should empower schools to help students achieve, not subject students and teachers to a one-size-fits-all system that bogs our education system down with endless red tape."

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