State Boards Worried About ESEA's Impact

State school board members and other education leaders from around the country gathered here this month with a new federal education law very much on their minds.

Despite the various sessions offered during the annual conference of the National Association of State Boards of Education, held Oct. 10-12, the session on the "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001 drew the largest crowds and dominated discussions here.

Among other mandates, the law, which is a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, requires states to report test scores by demographic subgroups and document that schools...

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