Senate to vote on revision to No Child education law

The nation’s main education law, long overdue for an overhaul, is headed for a major revision in the Senate.

Lawmakers plan to vote Thursday on a bipartisan bill to rewrite the Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act.

The bill, sponsored by Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, would narrow No Child Left Behind’s federal involvement in public schools by giving states and school districts more control over assessing the performance of schools, teachers and students.

It would keep the law’s requirement for annual math and reading tests, but prohibit the Obama administration from pushing Common Core on schools.

Any Senate bill would have to be reconciled with a more conservative education overhaul that passed the House last week.