Welcome to the FEA
Website
The Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) has been formed to expand on
and advance the ideas in the "Joint Organizational Statement on No Child
Left Behind" to improve federal education policy. The Joint Statement has
been signed by more than 153 national education, civil rights, religious,
children's, disability, and civic organizations, representing more than 50
million members.
The "Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind," released in
October 2004, calls for significant changes to improve federal education
policy. The signatories to the "Joint Statement" emphasize the need to
shift the No Child Left Behind law from applying sanctions for failing to
raise test scores to supporting states and localities and holding them
accountable as they work to make the systemic changes that improve student
learning.
FEA has sponsored numerous reports and proposed legislation, available on
this site. In June 2009, FEA issued "Empowering Schools and Improving
Learning" as a second, supplementary joint statement, with more than 80
initial signers. This document fleshes out ideas in the initial statement.
It focuses on opportunity to learn, assessment, accountability, and school
improvement.
FEA Recommendations for
Successful School Turnaround Efforts
See the FEA statement,
"A Research- and Experience-Based Turnaround Process," that focuses on
flexible local use of elements common to school improvement, and that
Congress should include in ESEA/NCLB reauthorization.
See Ratner and
Neill, "Common Elements of Successful Turnarounds: Research and
Experience," for analysis and summary of research on successfully
improving schools.
NEWS RELEASES/MEDIA ADVISORIES
10 June 2009
FEA releases second, supplemental joint statement, "Empowering Schools and
Improving Learning," endorsed by 85 national education, civil rights,
religious, disability, parent and civic organizations.
6 October 2008
FEA won four significant changes to the federal Higher Education
Act.
See a short article on these changes.
20 February 2008
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions seeks
to mark up a reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind/Elementary and
Secondary Education Act early this spring.
See the letter sent to Senators from the FEA urging that there be
proper time for review of the legislation between steps in the process
to be sure that the principles of the
Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB by the FEA are addressed in any
changes to the legislation.
See the
Press release.
7 January 2008
In a letter
delivered to the offices of all U.S. Senators and Representatives on the
6th anniversary of NCLB being signed into law, the Forum on Educational
Accountability wrote, “the message is loud and clear . . . the law is
not working to substantially improve learning for the students Congress
most intended to help.”
See the letter
See the Press Release
19 December 2007
See a letter sent from the FEA to
all of the candidates for the 2008 Presidential Election urging them to
overhaul NCLB
4 December 2007
See
a letter sent from the FEA to Congress today urging them to overhaul
NCLB
5 November 2007
FEA letter to Congress contrasts NCLB with FEA,
explains FEA as a civil rights education agenda.
3 October 2007
FEA submitted a letter to the members of
congress reminding them that any new reauthorization of NCLB must solve
the major problems in the law and meet the criteria established in the
Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB and by FEA in its legislative
recommendations.
See the letter
See the press release
19 September 2007
Most major civil rights organizations
support the use of multiple indicators and multiple assessments,
according to this FEA letter to Congress.
See the press release here.
19 September 2007
Action Alert! Keep Pressure on
Congress.
The signers of the Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left
Behind are having a major impact! Soon the House Education Committee
will discuss and vote on a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act/NCLB.
Also see a two page summary of the
issue from the FEA.
18 September 2007
FEA
recommendations on professional development in response to House Education
Committee discussion draft, Sept. 18, 2007.
10 September 2007
Two one page documents compare the House
education committee draft to the FEA proposals. A
general Title I comparison is here, a
comparison of professional development is here.
6 September, 2007
FEA submitted its
response to the House Education
Committee discussion draft on reauthorization of ESEA.
2, August 2007
See the latest Action Alert on keeping up the pressure on Congress to make
the needed changes to NCLB
See the
new summary of the
key points sought by FEA in
its legislative recommendations, based on the
Joint Statement.
14 June 2007
The Expert Panel on Assessment recommends overhaul of NCLB testing and
accountability provisions in its report Assessment and
Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning.
See the full report
See the Executive Summary
See the Press Release
