General Timeline for 'No Child Left Behind' Act

2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2013-14

For a more-detailed timeline from NEA, click here 
( PDF, 4 pages).

School Year 2001-02

Elementary and Secondary Education Act signed into law as Public Law 107-110 on January 8, 2002. All paraprofessionals hired after this date for Title I funded programs must meet the new paraprofessional requirements.

School Year 2002-03

• States must establish initial proficiency threshold for schools meeting Adequate Yearly Progress.
• States must administer language proficiency tests to all limited-English proficient students.
• All teachers hired for the first day of the 2002-2003 school year who are working in a program supported by Title I, Part A shall be "highly qualified."
• States must use 2 percent of Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
• LEAs must spend between 5 and 10 percent of such funds to ensure that teachers become highly qualified by the end of 2005-2006 school year.

School Year 2003-04

• All new migrant education funds will be based on actual counts of migratory children.
• 2004 Targeted Assistance grants become available.
• States must continue to use 2 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
• LEAs must continue to spend between 5 and 10 percent of such funds to ensure that teachers become highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year.

School Year 2004-05

• First year of Targeted Assistance grants under Reading First program.
• States must use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
• LEAs must spend 5 percent of such funds to ensure that teachers become "highly qualified" by the end of the 2005-2006 school year.
• SEAs must determine LEAs that have failed for two consecutive years to make progress toward the goal of all teachers being highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year, must develop an improvement plan to help the LEA, and must provide technical assistance.

School Year 2005-06

• All paraprofessionals hired prior to January 8, 2002, working in Title I programs must meet the paraprofessional requirements by January 6, 2006.
• States must have assessments for reading/language arts and math in grades 3–8 and in one between 10th and 12th grades.
• States must develop science standards.
• States must continue to use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
• LEAs must continue to spend 5 percent of such funds to help teachers who are not highly qualified become so by the end of the 2005-2006 school year.
• Teachers of core academic subjects must be "highly qualified" by the end of this year.

School Year 2006-07

States must continue to use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.

School Year 2007-08

• States must assess science in one grade between 3rd–5th, 6th–8th and 10th–12th.
• States must continue to use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.

School Year 2013-14

States must meet 12-year goal to have all students proficient in reading/language arts, math and science.