All posts tagged "No Child Left Behind"

(Steven Dennis of Roll Call) – No Child Left Behind is a step closer to a major overhaul...

(Karen Gray and Alexander Cooper/NPRI) – Is your son or daughter attending one of the 71 failing Title I schoolsin the Clark County School District? If so — and if you want him or her to go to a better school next year — you should consider taking advantage of a provision...

(Mike Brownfield/The Heritage Foundation) – In the shadow of yesterday’s disastrous Wall Street meltdown and President Barack Obama’s address to the nation, a lesser-noticed piece of news emerged from the Obama Administration: By executive fiat, the White House is once again circumventing Congress in the name of advancing the President’s agenda. It’s...

(Alexander Cooper/NPRI) – The Clark County School District failed to meet AYP for the 2010-2011 school year. Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), all schools and school districts are required to meet certain minimum standards (to make “adequate yearly progress”) set by the federal government. One of the primary factors that goes...

(Mike Chamberlain/The Cranky Hermit) – This morning  , the Las Vegas Sun editorial board penned a piece lamenting the loss of good teachers. Of course, the culprits, in their view, are budget cuts and “the No Child Left Behind initiative of former President George W. Bush, which ties federal education funding...