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Coats Supports Every Child Achieves Act

Press Release

By: Dan Coats
By: Dan Coats
Date: July 16, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Minors and Children K-12 Education

Senator Dan Coats (R-Ind.) today voted for the Every Child Achieves Act, bipartisan legislation that would restore to states and school districts the responsibility for education accountability. The bill passed the Senate 81 to 17.

"The Every Child Achieves Act ends the Common Core mandate and restores responsibility for accountability standards back to states," said Coats. "Defeating this legislation would continue federal control of education, which is unacceptable. We need to increase state and local control so decisions about our education system are made by those closest to students. Indiana educators know best how to teach Hoosier children."

The Every Child Achieves Act would:

End the Common Core mandate

End the need for federal waivers

End federal test-based accountability

End national school boards

Allow states to decide important measures in their accountability standards


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