Department of Education emphasizes four pillars within the bill: Accountability: to ensure those students who are disadvantaged, achieve academic proficiency. Flexibility: Allows school districts flexibility in how they use federal education funds to improve student achievement.
Research-based education: Emphasizes educational programs and practices that have been proven effective through scientific research. Parent options: Increases the choices available to the parents of students attending Title I schools. For more information: Programs Administered in Washington State. Information for Translate This Page. School districts were also granted increased flexibility to allocate federal funds to Title I programs or programs for improving teacher quality, improving student achievement through integration of technology into the classroom, safe and drug free school programs, or programs to expand school choice.
Critics voiced objections to No Child Left Behind funding levels following the law's passage. The requirements of the law placed greater demands on state and local education agencies without providing full reimbursement for the expenses they incurred. NCLB co-sponsor Senator Ted Kennedy criticized the amount of funding, stating, "The tragedy is that these long overdue reforms are finally in place, but the funds are not. Critics of the law also claimed that funding for the Enhancing Education Through Technology Program decreased over time as demand for classroom technology increased.
In fiscal year , funding for NCLB remained stagnant, which left school districts to cover the difference in their funding. Further criticism of the law's funding arose when districts struggling to make Adequate Yearly Progress faced escalating penalties while being denied the resources necessary to address these shortcomings.
Many education advocates expressed concerns about the law's proficiency requirements despite initially supporting the legislation.
Education historian Diane Ravitch labeled the provision that all students attain proficient scores in reading and mathematics by as flawed, since it did not fully take into account students with special needs, economically disadvantaged students, and students whose native language is not English.
School districts could have faced consequences if they did not meet percent proficiency in reading and mathematics by the year Ravitch also criticized the provision that placed failing schools in jeopardy of becoming charter schools , being taken over by state education agencies, or being closed as a result of not meeting progress requirements. Many critics of No Child Left Behind denounced its requirement of and emphasis on standardized testing. Many education advocates, including Diane Ravitch , believed that this emphasis would result in increased educational focus on the subjects of reading and mathematics, while taking away instructional time from subjects not covered by the law.
Under No Child Left Behind, disabled students with Individualized Education Programs and plans are counted the same as other students' scores are counted. Schools have argued against having disabled populations included in their AYP measurements because they claim that there are too many variables involved. The National Council for Disabilities was concerned that NCLB may conflict with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act because of its focus on group achievement instead of individual achievement.
The NCD also had concerns that NCLB focused on skills associated with state standardized testing, rather than the work-based experience necessary for obtaining employment. The statement condemned NCLB based on its perceived overemphasis on standardized testing, narrowing of curriculum instruction, and use of sanctions that they said did not improve schools. These organizations proposed significant reforms to NCLB based on progress measurement, assessments, building capacity, sanctions, and fully funding Title I to ensure that all students were equally served.
One significant provision of the proposed law rewarded school districts with high poverty rates that showed improvement. It also provided for the identification of and intervention in districts that failed to meet these goals. Additionally, the Blueprint required states and districts to create methods of measuring teacher and principal effectiveness in order to ensure that every classroom and school had high quality teachers and principals.
This reform effort also acknowledged and responded to the criticism that NCLB could give states an incentive to lower standards in order to make them more attainable.
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See also our full coverage of ESSA and what it means for states and school districts. NCLB was the product of a collaboration between civil rights and business groups, as well as both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill and the Bush administration, which sought to advance American competitiveness and close the achievement gap between poor and minority students and their more advantaged peers.
Here are a few frequently asked questions about the law, its history, and its policy implications. The law has been reauthorized and changed more than half a dozen times since that initial legislation.
And, for the most part, each new iteration has sought to expand the federal role in education. Bush on Jan. The NCLB law—which grew out of concern that the American education system was no longer internationally competitive—significantly increased the federal role in holding schools responsible for the academic progress of all students.
And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English-language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.
Under the NCLB law, states must test students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school. In early , the deadline had passed, but no states had gotten all percent of its students over the proficiency bar.
Beginning with the school year, all new teachers hired with federal Title I money had to be highly qualified. April - U. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, who had helped shepherd the NCLB law through Congress as a top domestic policy advisor in the White House, announces plans to offer states limited flexibility from parts of the law if they could prove they were moving the needle on student achievement.
George Miller, D-Calif. March — The Obama administration releases its own blueprint for revising the law, which would give states much more control over how to intervene in most schools, in exchange for setting high standards and putting in place teacher evaluations based in part on student outcomes.
The blueprint fails to catch fire on Capitol Hill. Fall — President Barack Obama offers states flexibility from key mandates of the NCLB law, in exchange for embracing his education redesign priorities.
Meanwhile, the Senate and House education committees get moving on reauthorization measures, but neither bill ultimately makes it over the legislative finish line. June — More than half of states have been granted waivers, so the majority of the country is no longer operating under the NCLB law as written. July — The U. The legislation, which is never taken up by the Senate, would significantly water down the federal role in K accountability.
March - Most states begin applying to renew their NCLB waivers, even as Congress wrestles with a reauthorization of the law. Major portions of the NCLB law have proven problematic, particularly as the law has matured without any congressional update or reauthorization. In many cases, students did not take advantage of the opportunity to transfer to another school, or get free tutoring. States and districts also had difficulty screening tutors for quality.
Some districts, including Chicago, successfully petitioned to offer their own tutoring services. States also generally shied away from employing dramatic school turnaround strategies for perennially failing schools.
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