From Center for American Progress:
| EDUCATION - KIDS LEFT BEHIND: CBS News reports that while communities want to improve education for kids, there's just no money to comply with President Bush's No Child Left Behind plan. "To make the grade under the new national guidelines, public schools in this country must meet specific criteria in 18 categories. If they fall short in just one, they are classified as failing and stand to lose Federal funding. That pressure to improve is believed to have been behind recent scandals in places like New York City and Houston, where educators were caught falsifying student records in order to boost schools' scores." But some just don't have the resources to comply. "A report in Illinois, for example, shows 44% of schools there don't meet federal standards. That leaves parents with nowhere to turn...It's not that Chicago public schools refuse to comply...The school district says it simply cannot comply. More than a quarter million children in this city alone were eligible for transfer, but the schools only had room for only about 1,000 of them." |
This is really getting out of control. The Democratic candidates need to discuss this issue more during the debates.
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