Several states - Connecticut, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Virginia included - recently announced that they were not yet required to offer supplemental services like tutoring to students in failing schools. Not so, says the U.S. Department of Education: the No Child Left Behind Act requires all schools that have been designated as failing for three years to offer supplemental services to students To read more about the misunderstanding (to give it its most generous interpretation) and the Department's efforts to ensure compliance with the law, see "States Suffer Halting Start on Tutoring," by Eric W. Robelen, Education Week, September 25, 2002
