Supt. Pugh discusses Every Student Succeeds Act at Colfax

The replacement for the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act is now law and expected to take effect in area schools in the next two years.

Colfax District Superintendent Jerry Pugh discussed the new Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 with school board members Monday night.

He and other eastern Washington superintendents met with U.S. Senator Patty Murray last Friday in Spokane, listening as she described the new law and how it came about.

Every Student Succeeds was signed by President Obama Dec. 11, with bipartisan lawmakers touting the change as a more flexible approach to student evaluation and sch...