ACORN Faults Implementation Of New ESEA
States, districts, and the federal government deserve a grade of D for poorly implementing two key provisions of the federal "No Child Left Behind Act" of 2001, a community-organizing group contends in a report released last week.
Those failures have already cost disadvantaged students some of the help promised by the law, says the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The Washington-based organization of families works on various civic issues, including better schools.
In a survey of 23 states and 50 school districts, conducted by ACORN and released on Nov. 21, the group found that too few parents were being properly notified of the qualifications of their children's teachers, or of tutoring services to which their children are entitled under the measure signed by...
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