No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

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No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Elementary Secondary Education Act
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When it comes to the education of our
children failure is not an option.
President George W.
Bush
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Cornerstones of Title I Provisions

• Parental Options
• Research

• Accountability
• Flexibility

• Accountability
• Flexibility

Cornerstones of Title I Provisions
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Accountability

• State Academic Standards-
• What children are expected to know and
• be able to do
• Assessments based on
• State Academic Standards

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• Assessments
• Testing in grades 3-8 (reading math)
• one time in High School
• Testing in science by 2007-2008 at 3 grade
• levels
• Disaggregated data
• 95 of students in each group must be tested

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AYP Adequate Yearly Progress

• State defined measure of annual achievement
• Applies to all children
• Goal is to bring all children up to proficiency
  by 2013-2014
• Starting point based on 2001-02 assessments

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Report Cards

• State, district school report cards
• Annual reports showing progress of each
• school, district and state towards meeting
• the standards
• Provided to all parents made available to
• the public
• Should be easy to understand

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• Schools In Need of Improvement
• Schools that do not make AYP for 2 years in a
  row
• are labeled in need of improvement
• Schools must develop a School Improvement Plan
• with parents
• Schools must notify parents that the school
  isin need of improvement and why

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• Public School Choice
• Schools labeled in need of improvement
• must offer public school choice
• All students enrolled in Title I schools are
• eligible for choice
• Priority must be given to lowest achieving, low
• income students
• Parents must be notified that public school
  choice is
• an option

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• If no schools available
• Districts encouraged to establish cooperative
• agreements with other districts
• May offer supplemental education services
• during 1st year of school improvement

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• Supplemental Educational Services
• Begins 2nd year school improvement
• Occurs outside of the regular school day
• Income eligibility requirements
• State identifies monitors SES providers

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• Parental Involvement Policies
• District Policies
• School Policies
• Compacts
• All must be developed jointly with parents

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• Highly Qualified Teachers
• (2005-2006)
• Bachelors Degree
• Thorough knowledge of subject area
• they are teaching
• Parents Right to Know Title I

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• Unsafe Schools Choice Option
• School determined to be persistently
• dangerous as defined by the state
• When a student becomes the victim of a
• violent crime at school

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NCLB is an opportunity to make a good education
system better. Every child can learn. As parents
and educators, our goal is to find the best way
to help them.