NCLB Panel Plans to Study Teachers, Student Progress, But Not Funding Levels
A private commission formed to explore potential changes to the No Child Left Behind Act plans to focus on such topics as adequate yearly progress and teacher qualifications, sidestepping more politically charged issues such as the level of federal funding for the law.
“We could spend two years or two lifetimes discussing funding, but when we took the final vote around this table, it wouldn’t affect the funding because that is a political decision that is going to be driven by Congress,” former Georgia Gov. Roy E. Barnes, a Democrat, said after the first, closed-door meeting of the Commission on No Child Left Behind, held March 6.
Mr. Barnes and Tommy G. Thompson, a Republican former secretary of health and human services and governor of Wisconsin, are co-chairmen of the panel, which is being administered by the Aspen Institute, a...
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