According to a recent New York Times article, up to ten states will be allowed more discretion on determining which local schools to target additional efforts on.
“The rising number of failing schools is overwhelming states’ capacities to turn them around, and states have complained that the law imposes the same set of sanctions, which can escalate to a school’s closing, on the nation’s worst schools as well as those doing a reasonable job despite some problems,” the NYT article stated.
The measure is drawing both support and criticism from teachers, think tanks, and other groups. For example, the country’s largest teachers union is supporting the measure. However, the representative of the American Federation of Teachers, was quoted in the NYT article as saying: “N.C.L.B. is in need of a dramatic overhaul and cannot be patched up with Band-Aids and pilot programs.”
Read the full article here: “U.S. Eases ‘No Child’ Law as Applied to Some States”
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