Can Iowa Students Say “You’re fired!”

Now this could be interesting. “Students’ opinions about their teachers, classmates and schools may be included in measures that hold Iowa schools accountable,” Mackenzie Ryan reported in The Des Moines Register. “The effort to include student voices comes as teachers and parents clamor for ways to measure schools beyond math and reading tests.”

“The state recently submitted its Every Student Succeeds Act plan for federal approval. It replaces the state’s plan under the No Child Left Behind law.”