NCLB

Most schools now are under Bush's No Child Left Behind act.
What is it?
It's a US Act of Congress Statute that was proprosed by the Bsuh administration. The Bill was passed by the House and Senate respecitvely in May and June 2001 and signed by Bush in 2002. It's based on the belief that setting high standards and establishing measurable educational goals will achieve high educational outcomes. It requires states to establish stanrds in basic skills that must be acheived by all students in certain grades. It's an accountability program as measured by Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)- measurement tool that the US Education Dept uses to determine academic achievement through standardized assessment

How does it do this?

• All k-12th grade schools are required to show AYP towards math and reading/language arts
• Elementary and middle schools must establish attendance rates & schools districts and high schools must establish graduation rates
• Schools must show AYP through standardized assessments

The state education agencies can use the assessments to establish target AYP goals. one these goals are made, schools must show acheivement in small amounts until 100% of students are proficient on state assessments by 2013-2014 school year.

What happens if schools fail to meet AYP?

Every state education agency is determined to which schools are meeting AYP each year. The US Education department designates certain schools under the Title 1 Act as "Federal School Improvement Status" Title 1 is a set of programs set up by US Education department to distribute funding to schools and districts with a large number of low-income students. To qualify, schools must have at 40% of students that classify as low-income under federal standards. Title 1 schools qualify under NCLB. Schools must take certain action for failing to make AYP.

1. After 2 years, schools must allow eligible children the chance to transfer to anbother school

2. After 3 years, the schools must provide Supplemental Education Services (SES) which can include

• free tutoring
• after school & summer programs
• remedial classes

3. After 4 years, the district must take corrective action such as changing curriculum

4. After 5 years, the school is identified as restructuring and arrangement are made to run it differently such as state takeover

The link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act