Question: What is the No Child Left Behind Act?
No Child Left Behind is a well-intentioned legislative effort to hold schools and teachers accountable.
Answer: No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA). The original legislation provides billions of dollars in federal aid to K-12 schools.
NCLB is President George Bush's attempt to hold the education establishment accountable by implementing testing in grades 3-8. Schools which do not reach the required standards are publicized so that parents can decide what course of action to take. NCLB also lays out a series of options which might be available to them.
The bottomline is that NCLB tries to do something about the nation's failing schools and the reality that families without financial means have little option but to put up with failing schools.
More Private Schools Q&A