Friday, February 20, 2004

Finally, some relief from the unreasonable burdens of No Child Left Behind. The U.S. Department of Education quietly announced that the test scores of immigrant children who do not speak English will not be considered in determining whether the school they attend has met its goal of adequately yearly progress. NCLB requires each sub-group within the school to meet these goals; if a single group does not, the entire school is labeled non-performing and is subject to punitive measures. No Child Left Behind is still an unreasonable federal intrusion into education policy that, if left unchanged, will probably dismantle public education as we know it now. This retrenchment by the Department of Education just shows the enormous pressure that is building in opposition to NCLB as more and more schools are labeled non-performing.

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