NCLB punishes schools/states who don't meet standard...

[liberal N proud]

To me this just sounds stupid, The teachers are not getting the degrees they need so we are going to punish the state and the students instead of correcting the situation by supplying the funds necessary to train these teachers.
But we can build schools in Baghdad?
Something wrong in the world today and I think I know what it is!

Education law leaves children behind
'The day of reckoning is here, and it's not going to pass'

Friday, May 12, 2006; Posted: 11:02 p.m. EDT (03:02 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year as promised by President Bush's education law. Nine states along with the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico face penalties.

The Department of Education on Friday ordered every state to explain how it will have 100 percent of its core teachers qualified -- belatedly -- in the 2006-07 school year.

In the meantime, some states face the loss of federal aid because they didn't make enough effort to comply on time, officials said.

They are Alaska, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina and Washington, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

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The 4-year-old No Child Left Behind law says teachers must have a bachelor's degree, a state license and proven competency in every subject they teach by this year. The first federal order of its kind, it applies to teachers of math, history and any other core class.

In grading the states, the department found that 29 have made substantial progress. They must improve, but they do not face looming sanctions.

More at link:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/05/12/teacher.quality.ap/index.html



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[napi21]

1. I heard a report this AM that NO STATE meat the std in the last eval!

the reporter said NCLB is a failure!!!!

[liberal N proud]

2. We knew that from the start.

[MichiganVote]

7. The gov't's plan is the failure, not the teachers and not the kids

[robbedvoter]

3. Hand grenade thrown at public education - Wes Clark

It was meant to humiliate, defund public education and shame on those who voted for it - Clark (one of the reasons I support him)

[goddess40]

4. NCLB is a success

as it was designed to gut public education and it is doing just that. Ignorant people are easier to control by the use of fear.

[MichiganVote]

5. A good teacher can teach anything.

[Nitrogenica]

6. All this is an excuse to not fund education.

That's what it was designed to be, a cost cutting effort by Bush to trim education by finding an excuse to cut funding. Bush is genuinely evil.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. ...so that it can then be privatized. "Proof the free market works!" nt