Summary
California's public schools of greatest need are being set up for failure by President Bush's federal "No Child Left Behind" law. This year, NCLB labeled one of every five public schools in California as failing. Worse yet, this unfair and unfunded law threatens these schools with sanctions instead of providing them with the assistance and resources to help them succeed.
NCLB's current one-size-fits-all approach to education is hurting all of our kids and pushing struggling students even further behind. A study by the Harvard Civil Rights Project shows NCLB is not helping to narrow the student achievement gap and is shortchanging schools that serve mostly disadvantaged, minority students because of its overreliance on sanctions rather than assistance.See the full content of this document
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Thousand Steps Back
As a teacher, I know we need proven reforms such as smaller class sizes and financial incentives to attract and retain teachers in hard-to-staff schools, as well as resources to provide ...
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