No Child Left Behind Act
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
President Bush signed The No Child Left Behind Act in 2001 as part of his educational reform plan. The plan includes four key principles: stronger accountability towards schools for performance results; expanded flexibility and local control; expanded options for parents and students; and emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work. The NCLB Act basically supports a system of challenging state standards in the core subjects of reading and mathematics for students from the third grade to the eighth grade level. Schools then submit annual reports on the results from student test scores, thus allowing the government and parents to examine the performance and quality of those schools.
According to the No Children Left Behind web site, ? Since the elementary and Secondary Education Act first passed congress in 1965, the federal government has spent more than 321 billion (in 2002 dollars) to help educate disadvantaged
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