Final Report of the Evaluation of New York Networks for School Renewal: An Annenberg Foundation Challenge for New York City
Institute for Education and Social Policy, Steinhardt School of Education, New York UniversityDecember 2001
Institute for Education and Social Policy, Steinhardt School of Education, New York UniversityDecember 2001
Michael R. Sandler, Education Industry Leadership BoardApril 2002
Debora Scheffel, Colorado Department of EducationMarch 2002
Forum for the American School SuperintendentJanuary 2002
Guilbert C. Hentschke, Scot Oschman and Lisa Snell, Reason Public Policy InstituteMay 2002
The No Child Left Behind Act requires school districts to allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to better (public) schools and to pay the transportation costs for those students to reach their new schools. For thousands of schools, that provision takes effect in September.
Mr. Greene: Superb analysis. I had never considered that full funding of special education costs by the federal government would dramatically increase public schools' incentive to classify challenging children.
The miserable failure of most states to implement the requirements of the 1994 federal education amendments in timely fashion had already cast a veil of doubt over the prospects for No Child Left Behind: the stark fact that states don't necessarily make the changes that Washington expects of them-and then get away with it.But what happens when states do comply with the formal requirement
Last week, the Department of Education released the most recent batch of scores on the NAEP history exam, and the results for 12th graders were abysmal.