Charter Schools Are Focus of First ESEA Reauthorization Hearing

Washington, February 26 — Signaling the important role of innovation in driving education reform, the House Education and Labor Committee chose charter schools as the focus of its first hearing to inform its rewrite of the eight-year-old No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.

“If our goal is to build world-class schools,” Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., said, “we absolutely need to look at high-performing charter schools for research and development — and replicate what they are getting right.”