What is the real goal of No Child Left Behind?

Question

According to an email from my congressman:
" The House leadership has proposed a
FY2007 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations
bill that would:

*Freeze Title I formula grants,
denying reading and math
instruction to 3.7 million low-
income children;
*Cut the Federal share of special
education funding to 17 percent
(compared to the 40 percent the
Federal government promised to
pay);
*Cut teacher training grants by
$300 million, denying 73,500
teachers the training they need to
meet the "highly qualified"
standard;
*Eliminate education technology
grants that help schools upgrade
computers and Internet
technologies;
*Cut Safe and Drug Free Schools
programs - which help protect our
kids from drugs and violence - by
$40 million; and
*Freeze funding for afterschool
programs, failing to serve 2
million children who have no
supervised place to go after
school."

Ok, yeah--I used to teach, so I know what it is SUPPOSED to do. . . but how is it supposed to DO that without funding? I guess that's what I really want to know.

Answer 1

More repuglican bull, cut programs because there is an evil war to fight. A war that wasn't needed, a war that was started based on a lie from the president. Add all of that up and it comes to 10 billion a month. I don't think that your list has would come up to that in a year. I wonder which is more important the kids or the war. Repuglicans should be ashamed of themselves but they are not. But this is really another reason to not vote for a repuglican in three weeks.

Answer 2

You need to be careful about what those congressman write. No matter what party you are affiliated with your candidate will pander to you. When you get mail of that nature it's almost assured that the language has been altered to make for easy reading. Have you ever read an actual appropriations bill? If you have, you would know that it's like getting a course in linguistic relativity hypothesis.

If you believe what you read from any politician with out substantiating it you fall into a place politicals and pollsters love. They have your undying pledge! Simply because you know no better.

I am not saying your congressman lied, I am saying that they slant their opinion of the facts to make it sound like the opposition is insane. Here's an example: What if the appropriations bill you refer to had amendments or additional informational facts or another appropriation bill that would have given your state 80 million if you eliminate some programs that are not running effectively or efficiently?

Now, I don't know what your party affiliation is but, if your congressman is on one side of the isle and someone from the other party suggested more money was available to your state or district but you can't get and have the money still going to those programs (doesn't mean you have to eliminate the programs, just pay for them differently), your congressman is NOT going to say the other side had a good idea!

Just food for thought.

Answer 3

I am a teacher so it hurts to says this, but everything in the letter you received has nothing to do with No Child Left Behind. Everything that is said in the letter you received is technically true, in other words it is accurate in the wording and the cuts that Ted Kennedy put in the bill. But (and I hate Ted Kennedy so I hate to defend him) it does seem to be a stretching of the truth.

NCLB was an unfunded mandate that helped equalize the differences between children by eliminiating the Achievement Gap. The AC however is defined as the difference between what a child is learning and what their ability to learn. Many of us had hoped it would be the difference between the lowest achieving child in our schools and the highest achieving child in our schools.

Since NCLB is an unfunded mandate it mean that ZERO dollars are associated with the bill. I actually went online and looked up the FY2007 LHHS Appropriations bill and the bottom line is there is smoke being blown up your...

In every state the lions share of the funds for the programs in question come from local, usually city or county, funds. For instance, nationwide only 1/8 of 1 percent of technology funds came from the Federal Government except for rural school districts where it was 2.875%. More money came from the Bill Gates Foundation than from our Federal Government for technology.

The only point that seemed to hold some water was the anti-drug program, but they still exaggerated, it is a reduction of 40 million dollars over the next 10 years, not 40 million dollars next year. There would still be funds of over 1 billion dollars dedicated to the anti-drug program over that same ten year period.

Answer 4

Any evidence or reason to suspect this or is it just partisanship at its worst? I'm guessing the latter.

The intention of No Child Left Behind was to start making teachers care about teaching all their students and to allow parents to have more freedom with where their kids go to school. Incidentally, this act was written by Ted Kennedy, not a Republican.

Answer 5

Here is the real goal of no child left behind!...
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=70&contentid=2855&page=2

Answer 6

what you fail to relise is that everything that is planned has a negitive and positive it cant be perfect for everybody

i say

that the no child left behind is very good in deed!!!!!


now you forgot to mention its advantages leaving the hole thing in a disadvatage nice try why dont you list the advantages as well then i will answer more thank you

another one who supports illegal immigration obviously you do

Answer 7

umm excuse me it isnt to dumb stuff down for the slow kids. I have seen what this program is suppsed to do and it isnt to make the slow kids smarter its to get them they help they need and not push them into another grade when they dont know what they are doing in the grade they are in. Unless you have a kid that is considered slow you shouldnt make comments on the ones that are

Answer 8

sway_ii (Above) Nailed It

It Is Designed To Dumb Down American Students

Answer 9

Dumb down the educational system to the slowest kids.

Answer 10

the real goal is to brainwash our kids