No Child Left Behind cemented as failed education legacy of former President Bush
For years, educators have been living and working with the unintended and harmful consequences of No Child Left Behind, which judges schools and children based solely on standardized test scores. President Barack Obama is calling to fully fund the law and move away from the test, label and punish regime of the last several years -- a welcomed change from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's endorsement last year of the penalty phase of NCLB.
Despite the fact that the overwhelmingly majority of our school districts are improving, the governor backed the penalty phase of No Child Left Behind, subjecting the districts that need help the most to punitive measures under the law.
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CTA is urging Congress and the President to make significant changes to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which was renamed No Child Left Behind by former President George W. Bush.
The law, originally intended to support public schools, was reauthorized in 2002. The existing version is severely flawed, using an unfair and inaccurate system of accountability measurements and sanctions that often punishes rather than supports schools.
An attempt to reauthorize the Act once again in 2007 was met with extreme opposition from CTA members, who educated Congress – and the public – that the 2007 revisions were no better, and in some cases worse, than the 2002 version. Because of CTA members’ tremendous efforts, House and Senate leaders decided to take up the reauthorization at a later time. See CTA President David A. Sanchez’s thank you letter on this NCLB victory.
As Congress prepares to reauthorize the ESEA in the future, CTA wants to erase the punitive and onerous provisions of the act and rewrite the law to help our schools and improve student learning.
CTA members will have the opportunity to participate in CTA’s campaign and help return ESEA to a law that supports teachers and schools.
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