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No Educator Left Behind is an occasional series providing answers from the U.S. Department of Education to questions about the federal No Child Left Behind Act and how it will affect educators. If you have a question about No Child Left Behind, send an e-mail to Ellen Delisio, and we will submit it to the Department of Education.
Update! For the latest information about NCLB, you might read the following January 2003 Education World article: No Child Left Behind Picks Up Steam
- How do teachers meet the No Child Left Behind Act's new standards for teacher quality? 06/05/2003
- What are schools' responsibilities regarding constitutionally protected prayer under the No Child Left Behind Act? 05/29/2003
- How will requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act affect students who are not fluent in English? 05/22/2003
- Do charter schools that admit students based on a lottery have to give priority to eligible students transferring under the public school choice provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act? 05/15/2003
- What are supplemental services under the No Child Left Behind Act, and what are schools' responsibilities regarding these services? 05/08/2003
- Does any part of the No Child Left Behind Act deal with helping students make the transition from eighth grade to ninth grade? 05/01/2003
- How can the testing required by the No Child Left Behind Act adequately demonstrate what students are learning in the classroom? 04/24/2003
- How is the Department of Education helping states and school systems implement the technology requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act? 04/17/2003
- What guidance for educating homeless children does the No Child Left Behind Act provide? 04/10/2003
- Currently, the No Child Left Behind Act requires that students' reading and mathematics skills -- and, eventually, their science skills, as well -- be tested annually. Down the road, will schools also be required to test students in other subject areas? 04/03/2003
- How does the No Child Left Behind Act affect education requirements for Head Start staff members? 03/27/2003
- Does the No Child Left Behind Act provide any incentives to recruit and/or retain highly qualified and capable teachers? 03/20/2003
- How is the Department of Education ensuring that under the No Child Left Behind Act, special education students will not be forced to take standardized tests that are beyond their ability level? 03/13/2003
- What exactly is Reading First, and what are its specific goals? How does it differ from other reading programs? 03/06/2003
- What are the requirements under The No Child Left Behind Act for people who work with special education students? 02/27/2003
- Under the No Child Left Behind Act, is there a way to compare adequate yearly progress among states? 02/20/2003
- What assistance for after-school programs does the No Child Left Behind Act offer? 02/13/2003
- Why does the No Child Left Behind Act have provisions that do not relate to student learning? 02/06/2003
- Under the No Child Left Behind Act, do teachers have to be certified in every subject they might be asked to teach? 01/30/2003
- How much additional work, responsibility, and expense do you expect the No Child Left Behind Act to mean for local school districts? 01/23/2003
- If paraprofessionals need additional education to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act, is someone going to help them pay the tuition? 01/16/2003
- What if a local education agency finds that it does not have the physical capacity within its schools to accept transferring students under the school choice policy? 01/09/2003
- How must local education agencies notify parents that their children are eligible for public school choice under the No Child Left Behind Act? 01/02/2003
- How (if at all) ave the requirements for providing services to private school students and teachers changed under the No Child Left Behind Act? Do public school districts administer federal funds for students and teachers at private schools? 12/12/2002
- Under the No Child Left Behind Act, do private schools have to administer tests in grades 3 to 8, as do the public schools? Does NCLB only apply to private schools that have students eligible for Title I services? How is it determined that private-school students qualify for services? 12/05/2002
- How can schools that exceed state standards show adequate yearly progress when statistically they do not have enough room to improve? 11/14/2002
- The NCLB Act calls for "highly qualified teachers" in all classrooms by 2005-2006 with full state certification. How can districts accomplish that? 11/07/2002
- Would having concentrations in two subject areas, rather than a major in one subject area, meet the No Child Left Behind Act's requirement that new middle school teachers have completed an academic major in the subject area they will be teaching? 10/31/2002
- How does the No Child Left Behind Act affect paraprofessionals currently employed in schools? 10/24/2002
- What is the Department of Education doing to ensure that standards for measuring annual yearly progress are comparable from state to state? 10/17/2002
- What defines a "research-based" instructional program? 10/10/2002
- How does the Supreme Court decision upholding school vouchers relate to the school choice option in the No Child Left Behind Act -- or does it? 10/03/2002
- What is the unsafe school choice option in the No Child Left Behind Act? 9/26/2002
- Do all school districts have to give students the chance to transfer? 9/19/2002
- How will testing students annually help principals? 9/5/2002
- What does the No Child Left Behind Act require from states and school districts regarding "report cards" on school performance? 8/22/2002
- What does the phrase adequate yearly progress mean and how will schools measure it? 8/15/2002
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