Tribal Representatives Complain of Little Help on NCLB Flexibility
Hearing Details Concerns About High Failure Rates at Federally Run Schools
American Indian tribal representatives told members of Congress last week that the federal government has been ineffective in helping them to create alternative definitions for adequate yearly progress at Bureau of Indian Education schools under the No Child Left Behind Act, although the law permits them to do so.
Their complaints came at a Sept. 9 congressional hearing that included the release of a new U.S. Government Accountability Office
report
saying that the federal government has not informed tribes well of the process to establish alternatives nor been responsive to their requests for assistance.
The latest report, which follows up on findings in a GAO report released in June, also says the government has begun to rectify the problem by starting to meet...
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