No Child Left Behind needs to be repealed and a far better system of educational standards placed at the top of the agenda of our nation's educational priorities.
This abominal legislation has caused impoverishment of the nation's educational standards.
Typical of a Republican directive, the Secretary of Education turned to BUSINESS Coalition to renew this terrible legislation. The speech alone is one of the most pathetic speeches I've ever heard. It is adversarial, it speaks NOT to the best interest of children but only to the result of Republican politics.
Business has no place in the management of the USA educational system. We aren't the handmaiden to moronity or the mother of invention to corporations. We are a nation of people that deserve to have their children educated in public schools at levels that are standardized.
The Republican agenda for children include pulling in Business Coalitions, no different than Cartels, to harness the future of children to be sure they have a designer workforce.
There are schools failing all over this country because they are 'punished' for their inabiltiy to meet artificial standards set by business cartels which results in reduced funding for the schools that need it most. I find the Spelling 'idea' of appropriate education nothing more than pandering to cronies while victimizing our youngest citizens. Impeachment is too good a word for what needs to be done to this Secretary of Education and the adminisration in DC that sees children as a workforce rather than young minds with a future to be nurtured.
When is this exploitation of the American people going to end !?
As a result of a federal law that victimizes students, their parents and those that attempt to organize quality education at the local level there are independant organizations that actually believe they will matter to an administration dominated by corporate vision and greed.
I encourage anyone to join these organizations and 'Take Back America's Educational System' and protect the future of our children.
This is an example:
Project Tomorrow
www.tomorrow.org
Whatever happened to the PTA, did Bush's White House get rid of them, too?
No Child Left Behind Should Be Defeated
Wanting to change "no child left behind"
Posted 9/12/2007 6:17p
by Kristy Mergenthal
SILVIS, Illinois --
It's been a controversial way for schools to get the funding they need, no child left behind has one test that fits all even though kids don't learn the same way, now a Quad City teacher went to Capital Hill to voice her concerns.
As a member of the national education association, special ed teacher Tammy Smith recently traveled to Washington to talk with congressman Phil Hare about rejecting the current language in the reauthorization of no child left behind.
"As it stands right now my children who are fourth grade age take fourth grade tests despite the fact that their not functioning at that level" said Tammy.
Congressman Hare agrees, every child in every school district is different that's why he's asking very little of the bill to be salvaged.
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=7067027&nav=1sW7
No Child Left Behind: 2007 Results
The scorecard is in and Fayette County has reason to celebrate. The Kentucky Department of Education released the latest round of test scores and a record number of schools have met the federal "No Child Left Behind" targets. 36 of 50 schools met federal guidelines, this is a record number. But there is even more good news, all but one school showed improvement….
…The good news dampened a little bit Monday night when the school system was notified by the Kentucky Board of Education that two schools, Jessie Clark Middle and Tates Creek High School had been flagged and might not be correct. If true, it could change their status and prevent them from making all their goals. The Fayette County School System has asked for a review of the data. So Fayette County showed improvement, but how about the rest of Kentucky? The Department of Education reports 75% of public schools met "No Child Left Behind" requirements. 884 of the states 1,167 public schools met their goals, 283 did not.
For complete reports:
http://www.education.ky.gov/KDE/Administrative+Resources/Testing+and+Reporting+/Reports/No+Child+Left+Behind+Reports/2007+No+Child+Left+Behind+%28NCLB%29+Briefing+Packet+and+Reports.htm
http://www.wtvq.com/midatlantic/tvq/news.apx.-content-articles-TVQ-2007-09-12-0006.html
Fayette County Schools Show Improvement in ?No Child Left Behind? Grade
By Chris Dietz
E-mail Biography
A record number of Fayette County Schools achieved adequate yearly status in the most recent No Child Left Behind Results. 36 of the System’s 50 schools achieved all their targets to reach adequate yearly progress status. A majority of the 14 schools, that missed the overall mark, showed great improvement and their students’ reading and math proficiency.
At a news conference Tuesday to announce the results, Fayette County Schools Superintendent Stu Silberman told Action News 36 the positive numbers show, ”what it really means is where the rubber is hitting the road in our classrooms we’ve got great things happening.” Silberman said the results were something which should be celebrated,”We feel really good about the trend and again we are not where we want to be yet.”
http://www.wtvq.com/midatlantic/tvq/news.apx.-content-articles-TVQ-2007-09-12-0009.html
No Child Left Behind Act faces overhaul, political donnybrook
Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau
Sunday, September 9, 2007
In 2002, two of Congress' liberal Democratic lions - Rep. George Miller of Martinez and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy - stood behind President Bush as he signed the No Child Left Behind Act, a law they promised would shine a bright light on the failures in America's public schools and kick-start reforms.
Five years later, Miller, now chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, is still a believer. But after traveling the country - listening to complaints from parents, teachers, school administrators and governors about the law's testing regime and stiff sanctions - he now admits it needs fixing.
"We've learned a lot, and we shouldn't ignore that evidence," said Miller, who is leading the overhaul of the law in the House, which starts this week. "What we're trying to do in this reauthorization bill is to look for those changes to make this a smarter, fairer, better law."
Reform is coming to No Child Left Behind, but the question is what kind. Teachers unions, which bitterly oppose the law, are pushing to relax its rigid testing rules and penalties. Business groups, eager for better-educated workers, want to see the tough accountability measures preserved or expanded. Many states and local school districts are clamoring for more flexibility in implementing the law, which expires this year.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/09/MNA5S0CNB.DTL
