JUST DON'T CALL IT COMMON CORE:

The Senate bill - dubbed the Every Child Achieves Act - was introduced by Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the committee's chairman, and ranking minority member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., weeks after the two announced they would work together to craft a measure to update the law, formally known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The bill strikes a balance between dueling priorities across the aisle by scaling back federal oversight and giving states much more flexibility in developing their own accountability systems, while also laying out minimum federal protections states must meet in those systems and keeping in place annual testing mandates.

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