New York Times Reports President Bush….
was at a Harlem charter school on Tuesday saying that the NCLB bill should be renewed. He states that Congress should not weaken this bill.
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Arizona Schools Chief Tom Horne….
at a meeting of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. comes out against the NCLB bill. He stated that federal policy makers are not giving states enough time to get English Language Learners to learn the English language.
The Washington Post Reports…
on schools districts dropping the fight with the Department Of Education over testing rules in the NCLB bill.
The Detroit News…
has its own article up on the fight over renewing the NCLB bill.
Fairfax Schools Give Up Fight….
against testing rules in the NCLB bill. The school district gave the superintendent the authority in January of 2007 to fight the NCLB rules. If they went against the federal government they would have lost 17 million bucks.
I say this blows!
Education Trust Lists What They….
would do to fix the NCLB bill.
Some highlights from pdf file:
They would like to see a growth model used for the AYP part of the NCLB bill, they get in heavy details on schools that need improvement by going over it on a year by year bases .
