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'No Child Left Behind' Act/ESEA


The National Education Association believes that great public schools are a basic right of every child and devotes its resources and energy to that end.

NCLB purports to seek the same thing, but it has serious shortcomings.  NEA will focus on three priority areas in working with Congress as it considers the reauthorization of NCLB/ESEA:

  • Use more than test scores to measure student learning and school performance.

    • Include multiple measures of student learning and school effectiveness instead of the current one-day snapshot based solely on standardized tests.
    • Reward progress over time to improve student achievement at all levels.
    • Recognize individual needs of students (Special Education; English Language Learners.

  • Reduce class size to help students learn.

    • Restore the class size reduction program.
  • Increase the number of highly qualified teachers in our schools.

    • Provide financial incentives to teachers who teach in hard-to-staff schools.
    • Allow teachers who have achieved certification by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to be deemed "highly qualified."
    • Provide flexibility for teachers of multiple subjects, including special education and rural educators.

Even the Department of Education has recognized problems in the existing law and has  instituted changes that provide some needed flexibility to certain regulations.

NEA believes the changes made so far are steps in the right direction, but more significant changes are needed in order to make the law workable and effective. We hope you will join us by urging your elected representatives in Congress to support legislative proposals that will improve NCLB.

For background information on key broad areas of the law see:


 

 

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