A bill that would update, and in most cases replace “No Child Left Behind” is moving rapidly through the US Senate.
South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says the new act is called the “Every Child Achievement Act”…………

Rounds says in the absence of NCLB, federal education officials have been leaning on “Common Core” standards…………

Rounds says the new act will give the states more authority to set education standards………

The full Senate will pick up debate on the act this week.