Republican Senator Gary Nodler supports the legislation that would make Missouri's reporting standards the same as those of the Fedreal government in the No Child Left Behind Act.
Some opponents say the bill would lower Missouri's reporting standards, but Senator Gary Nodler says Missouri's standards were already higher than those required by No Child Left Behind.Get the radio story
The bill's sponsor, Repbulican Sen. Gary Nodler, argues this is not a matter of lowering standards but merely correcting how the state views student scores.
Bill sponsor Sen. Gary Nodler, R-Joplin, said that the proposal was designed to reduce confusion for teachers and state officials who want to see how Missouri students are faring nationwide. The bill was not designed, he said, to impact testing standards.
And that's just what Missouri may do. State Senator Gary Nodler, a Joplin Republican, has introduced a bill that would not only lower Missouri's testing standards to the federal minimums, but would mandate that they never exceed those standards.