For all the discord over the No Child Left Behind Act, supporters and critics agree on one thing: It should be fixed, and quickly.
Now it’s looking increasingly likely that Congress won’t make much progress in addressing the law’s flaws this year, endangering the prospects that the task will be completed before President Bush leaves office.
Efforts to revise the law are mired in backroom negotiations in both the House and the Senate and show no signs of gaining the momentum necessary to ensure completion of the reauthorization in 2008.
(snip) If such changes aren’t made soon, he and others predict, too many schools may be unfairly tagged under the federal law as needing improvement.
Schools that fail to make adequate yearly progress in raising achievement in reading and mathematics, whether for students overall or certain subgroups, face increasingly tougher sanctions under the law.
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