No Child Left Behind

May 9, 2008  Preliminary findings suggest that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion may be producing less-than-stellar results.
May 8, 2008  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.
May 2, 2008  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.
Updated: May 6, 2008  A federal appeals court has agreed to re-examine a ruling by a panel of the court that revived a lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act for imposing unfunded mandates on states and school districts.
May 1, 2008  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.
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May 6, 2008  The rules would set a uniform method of calculating graduation rates.

April 29, 2008  Utah education officials had hoped to use the state’s system for measuring school success.

March 27, 2008  Citing a new report from the GAO, Sens. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, and Arlen Specter, R-Pa., say they will be watching the Department of Education closely.

March 17, 2008  The Virginia legislature has approved a bill that would direct the state board of education to decide whether to withdraw from participation in the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

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March 4, 2008  Six failing school districts will be assigned intervention teams by the state education department in an effort to pull them out of program improvement under the No Child Left Behind Act.

April 29, 2008   The 25th anniversary of A Nation At Risk should give federal policymakers the opportunity to reconsider the current federal approach, one influential lawmaker said last week.
April 25, 2008   Indiana high schoolers pitch in to campaign for Sen. Barack Obama in preparation for the state's primary elections on May 6.
Updated: May 1, 2008   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.
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