Power Point Presentation

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Power Point Presentation

• No Child Left Behind Act

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Background

• George Bushs plan for bi-partisan education
  reform, introduced in 2001
• Solutions were to be based on flexibility,
  accountability, and choice.
• Main goal to make the federal government more
  responsible

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Greater Flexibility

• Allows for transferring funding, received under
  state grants, to other programs
• Allows up to 7 states to consolidate the state
  share of nearly all federally granted programs
• Allows up to 80 Local Education Agencies to
  consolidate funds received under state grants

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Greater Accountability

• Requires states to employ statewide systems
  covering all students and schools
• These new systems will be based on new,
  challenging state standards in reading and math
• Yearly testing of students to ensure all students
  reach proficiency by graduation
• Failure of states to reach proficiency each year
  will result in school restructuring

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Greater Choice

• Parents must be given choice to send their child
  to a new school if their current school has been
  identified for improvement.
• Parents must also be offered bus service to the
  new school

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Reading First

• Reading First Initiative increased governments
  investment in scientifically-based reading
  progams
• Goal to ensure all children can read by end of
  third grade

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Other Changes

• Work with local efforts to keep schools drug and
  violence free
• Allow students who attend dangerous school the
  opportunity to transfer to a safe school

• Emphasis on class size reduction
• Implementation of programs to help ESL children
• Use practices, based on scientific research, to
  recruit, train, and prepare teachers

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Major Requirements

• Assessment of students in grades 3-8, and once in
  grades 10-12 in reading, math, and writing
• By 2007, states must implement science testing at
  these grade levels
• Nothing short of 100 proficiency will be
  accepted by 2014

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Funding

• In 2004, the Federal government gave 24.3
  billion to implement the provisions of NCLB
• 12.3 billion will be added to a fund that goes
  to high poverty schools and districts.

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In short

• NCLB was set up to improve the eroding state of
  education across the nation.
• By focusing on accountability, flexibility, and
  choice, states are given more opportunities to
  make education better.
• NCLB has been met with opposing views all around
  the country, so it will be interesting to see the
  course the Act takes in the future