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No Child Left Behind
An Overview
 What is No Child Left Behind?
 How does it affect teachers?
No Child Left Behind Pretest
True or False
1. The primary focus of NCLB is to document performance levels of
individual students.
2. NCLB requires that every child be tested every year in grades 3 to 12
3. AYP means Adequate Yearly Progress.
4. All public schools in Florida by school year 2013 - 2014 must meet the
proficiency standards of NCLB.
5. All students who attend a school that has not made AYP for 2 years are
eligible for school choice.
6. Schools within the student's district can refuse to accept the request for
transfer, if the school can show it doesn't have enough teachers and materials.
7. The parents have the right to decide on the final placement of their child
when school transfer option is available.
8. Supplemental Educational Services (SES) become available when the
school has not made AYP for 3 consecutive years.
9. All students attending Title I schools are eligible for SES if the school
doesn't make AYP.
10. SES can only be provided after school or on the weekends.
 The No Child Left Behind Act is actually the
reauthorization of an old education law that
provides federal money to schools.
 The law is called the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, or ESEA.
 It was first passed in 1965 under the
Johnson administration, as part of Johnson's
War on Poverty. The law provides federal
funds to schools that have a high number of
poor and disadvantaged students.
 Every state receives these funds and then
they pass them along to qualifying schools.
 The largest section of ESEA is known as
Title I. Schools that receive ESEA funds
are known as Title I schools.
 Every five to six years, ESEA has to be
reauthorized. Each time the law is
reauthorized, some changes are made,
and it's given a catchy new name (under
Clinton, it was known as Goals 2000).
 The current authorization is called the No
Child Left Behind Act, and it was signed
into law by President Bush on January 8,
2002.
 It will be in place for six years.
 It's getting a lot of attention because this
version places a lot of new requirements
on schools in order for them to receive the
funds.
 The basic premise of NCLB is that all
children can have academic success if
they are given the opportunity and the
support that they need.
 The law focuses on schools using
scientifically based teaching practices, and
demonstrating the results.
 There are three major parts of the NCLB
legislation: standards, accountability, and
choice.
What are Standards?
 Standards are a set of expectations about what all
children should know and be able to do by the end
of each grade level. Under NCLB, each state must
develop its own academic standards. Florida's
standards are called the Sunshine State
Standards.
 All schools are required to align their curriculum to
the SSS. Then each school district has local
control over HOW these topics will be taught.
 NCLB requires standards in the "core
content subjects": reading, math, and
science.
What is Accountability?
 The basic premise of school accountability
is that student test scores are a reflection of
how well the school is teaching. There are
three major parts of Accountability: Testing,
Reporting, and Sanctions.
What does NCLB say about
student testing?
 Under the previous authorization of ESEA,
states were required to give state
standardized tests to students three times
during their schooling, in both reading and
math. Under NCLB, states are required to
increase the amount of testing.
NCLB Annual Testing
Requirements
 Students must be tested in:
• 2005-06
English, Language Arts, Mathematics
• 2007-08
Science (grades 4, 8, 11)
Will All Students Be Tested?
 Yes. NCLB requires that at least 95% of the students at
each grade level complete the annual tests. Schools that
do not test at least 95% of their students will be subject to
Federal sanctions.
 In addition to testing at least 95% the students in each
grade level, NCLB also defines a list of "subgroups" of
students who are at risk for school failure. These groups
are based upon:
 Gender, race, ethnicity, disability, low-income, Limited
English Proficiency
 At least 95% of students in each of these subgroups must
be tested as well. (A group of students in any of these
categories qualifies as a subgroup for the 95% rule if there
are at least 41 students in the group.) Failure to test
enough students in any subgroup will also result in Federal
sanctions.
What will schools do with all of
these test scores?
 Schools will be using the test scores for the
second part of accountability: reporting.
 The basic idea is that if schools are teaching well,
then students will score well on the tests.
 Under NCLB, schools are required to report
annual test scores to the State Department of
Education. The State and the Federal
Departments of Education will use the annual test
scores to measure school performance.
 Student test scores from each school are figured
together each year, to give an overall picture of
how many students are meeting or exceeding the
learning standards. Each state has established
Performance Standards- a certain percentage of
Meeting (and Exceeding) scores that a school
must have in order to be considered a successful
school.
 This standard of school performance is called
Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP. In order for a
school to make AYP, each grade level must score
at least as high as the standard set forth. In
addition, each of the subgroups must also meet or
exceed the percentage set forth.
 Each state has determined "starting point"
percentages that schools must meet to make AYP.
So what happens if a school fails to
make Adequate Yearly Progress?
 Year 1 of Test Scores Below AYP:
• School must develop a plan of improvement
 Year 2 of Test Scores Below AYP:
• School is labeled a "Continuous Improvement
Priority School"
• School must notify parents about status
• School must provide school choice to families
 Year 3 of Test Scores Below AYP:
• School must continue above
• School must offer supplemental educational
services to qualifying children
 Year 4 of Test Scores Below AYP:
• School must continue above
• School must take corrective actions (staff and
curriculum changes)
 Year 5 of Test Scores Below AYP:
• School restructuring or state takeover (state
takeover is not applicable in Florida).
 Remember, these sanctions apply ONLY to
Title I schools. Once a school has failed to
make AYP, it must then make AYP for two
consecutive years to be taken off this list.
 School choice and Supplemental
Educational Services are two important new
options that become available to students
who attend a school that fails to make AYP.
How does NCLB involve parents?
 Parents whose children attend a Title I
school can request to see the qualifications
of any teacher who works with their child.
 Parents whose children attend a school that
fails to make AYP also have two new
options under NCLB: School Choice and
Supplemental Educational Services.
 School choice becomes available when a school is
in the second year of failure to make AYP. (This is
the same year it is labeled a CIPS, or Continuous
Improvement Priority School).
 NCLB requires that schools notify all parents of
this status. In addition, they must offer parents the
choice of transferring their children out of the CIP
school, into a non-failing school within the district.
The CIP school will provide transportation to the
non-failing school at no cost to families.
 School choice is available to all students, but lowincome and low-performing students are given
priority.
 Schools may use Title I funds to cover
transportation cost, but no more than 20% of total
Title I funds may be used.
 This provides a cap on how many students may
take advantage of school choice. School choice is
also available to students who attend a school that
is "persistently dangerous."
What are Supplemental
Educational Services?
 Supplemental Educational Services (SES) are tutoring
services that the school provides to students at no cost to
children who attend a CIP school.
 SES becomes available when a school fails to make AYP
for three years. Unlike school choice, supplemental
educational services are available only to students with low
income. (This is determined by free or reduced lunch
status).
 An outside provider or another school that is not a CIPS
may provide supplemental educational services; the CIP
school may not provide the services. In addition,
supplemental services must take place after the school day
or on the weekend; they may not be provided during the
school day. Schools are not required to provide
transportation to the SES provider, unless the district
chooses to do so.
Pretest Answers
Answers:
#1. False
#2. False
#3. True
#4. True
#5. True
#6. False
#7. True
#8. True
#9. False
#10. True