The No Child Left Behind law: Are the fixes worse than the flaws?
July 27, 2010
The Connecticut Mirror
The Connecticut Mirror
The Connecticut Mirror
Parents and teachers don't like it...But that doesn't mean Congress is ready to revamp No Child Left Behind, the education reform law pushed by then-President George W. Bush with bipartisan support in the House and Senate in 2001...And as with the competitive grants issue, critics say, there are serious questions about how such options would work in small towns or even big urban districts. "If you fire 35 teachers at a rural high school, there probably aren't 35 others to come in and replace them," said former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, now president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a policy and advocacy group focused on high school reform.
The Connecticut Mirror
