NCLB Revisited
Renewing the Law
Federal
Rules Mandate Uniform Graduation Rates
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings puts the Bush administration's final stamp on the No Child Left Behind Act with regulations on graduation rates, tutoring, and testing.
Federal
Advocates Say NCLB’s ‘Comparability’ Provision is in Need of Fine-Tuning
Advocates for poor and minority children are lobbying for lawmakers to change the ways school districts allocate $13.9 billion in Title I money among the schools in their systems.
Federal
Report Cites Asian-Americans' NCLB Issues
Schools are failing to identify such students under the No Child Left Behind Act and to get them the academic interventions they need, a report says.
Federal
Debate Emerges Over Proposed NCLB Rules on Tutoring, Choice
If the Bush administration has its way, school districts will be required to take a series of actions to ensure that parents and students know about their rights to free tutoring and school choice under the No Child Left Behind Act.
Federal
NCLB Plan Would Add New Rules
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings formally unveils regulations that would require state and local school officials to provide more and better information about high school graduation rates.
Federal
States Get Flexibility on Targets
Up to 10 states will be allowed to overhaul the way in which they spend federal K-12 funds to intervene in low-performing schools, under a pilot project.
Federal
Spellings, on Tour, Aims to Promote NCLB
In the 15th stop on her intermittent
national tour to promote
the NCLB Act,
Secretary Spellings encountered both defenders and critics of the law. And they turned out to be the same
people.
Federal
Bush Presses NCLB Renewal on His Terms
As the federal law turned 6 years old this month, President Bush suggested he would favor few revisions.
Federal
Court Revives NEA Suit Against NCLB
A federal appeals court has revived a major legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act based on arguments that the law imposes financial obligations on states and school districts without providing enough funding to cover the costs.
Federal
Spellings Seeks to Cast Her Glow Over NCLB
In her three years as U.S. secretary of education, Spellings has been the nation’s leading spokeswoman for the No Child Left Behind Act.
Federal
‘Growth Models’ Gaining in Accountability Debate
As the U.S. Department
of Education opens the
alternative measuring stick to
all states, some educators call
for the models to take center
stage under a renewed
No Child Left Behind Act.
Federal
Amid Pessimism on NCLB, Talks Continue
Some observers blame President Bush and the NEA for the lack of progress on reauthorization this year.
Federal
Usually Contentious Title I Formula Is No NCLB Barrier
For all of this year’s debate about the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.
Federal
NEA Leads Opposition to Law’s Renewal
The 3.2 million-member union and its California affiliate are mounting a vigorous campaign against the law and the most prominent proposal for reauthorizing it.
