Students would be eligible for free tutoring if these schools fail to meet their goals for two years in a row and would then get the option to transfer if the school misses its goals a third time. After four consecutive years of failing to meet annual goals, the district must take action to improve the school, such as replacing certain staff or implementing a new curriculum.
After five years, the school is identified for restructuring and arrangements must be made to run it differently. These can include a state takeover, the hiring of a private management contractor, conversion to a charter school or significant staff restructuring. There are rewards for schools that close achievement gaps between groups of students or exceed academic achievement goals.
All schools and districts are required to make annual report cards available to the public. The report cards must include details on:. Department of Education also requires states to participate in National Assessment of Educational Progress NAEP reading and math assessments of fourth- and eighth-grade students every two years. These tests allow parents to compare how students are performing in different states.
The NAEP results must also be included on school and district report cards. The No Child Left Behind law was designed to hold schools more accountable and empower parents. Here are some steps you can take to make the law work for your child:. The organization, which advocates for public schools, surveyed education officials in 50 states and gave the law a mixed report card in The center concluded that as a result of the law:.
Federal education officials dispute these conclusions. Only about 1. But others have accused school districts of failing to notify parents of their option to transfer. School choice advocates took legal action on these complaints and sued the Los Angeles and Compton, California, school districts in School districts and for-profit tutoring companies are sparring over the reasons why.
Some tutoring companies say districts have failed to inform families in a clear and timely way that students are eligible for tutoring. Some school officials have pointed to the lack of oversight of tutoring companies and say the quality of services has been wildly uneven. In an attempt to increase the number of students getting tutoring, the federal government changed the rules in for 23 school districts in Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia.
The single biggest criticism is that the federal government has not fully funded the law, a charge the Bush administration counters by saying that the law is a partnership between the U. Others argue that the law imposes a rigid solution to problems historically better solved at the state and local levels. Utah decided in to forfeit federal money rather than follow the law. Other districts and states have filed legal challenges or are contemplating them. They were also left out of state tests.
The goal of NCLB was to provide more education opportunities for students. It focused on four key groups:. It did this through annual testing, reporting, improvement targets, and penalties for schools. These changes made NCLB controversial, but they also forced schools to focus on disadvantaged kids. NCLB is no longer the law. Annual testing: Schools had to give students statewide math and reading tests every year in grades 3—8 and once in grades 10— Parents and caregivers had the right to get individual test results for their kids.
All kids had to take the tests, including at least 95 percent of students in the disadvantaged groups. For example, schools had to report how students in special education were performing on reading and math tests. They had to set targets for improvement, called adequate yearly progress AYP. Schools essentially got a report card from the state on how they were performing. The school had to share that information with parents of their students. If a school repeatedly failed to meet AYP, parents had the option to move their kids to another school.
The penalties only applied to Title I schools. Apart from accountability, NCLB made other changes to federal education law. Here are a few of the most important. This meant that special education teachers had to be certified and demonstrate knowledge in every subject they teach.
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Log in or sign up for a new account and join now to continue reading. Join now to continue reading. The comments were left by parents, teachers and school staff members starting Dec. Young Jr. The waiver, which was submitted to the U.
It requested additional flexibility related to certain provisions of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act about identification of schools and districts in need of improvement using data from the school year, as well as use of Title I School Improvement funds. The updated law took effect for the school year. The Every Student Succeeds Act retained the annual standardized testing requirements introduced by the No Child Left Behind Act, but moved accountability to the state level, which must submit an accountability plan to the federal department.
Rosa said in a prepared statement.
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