Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

IMPLEMENTING NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT

Oct 28, 2002

State Education Chiefs Call for Flexibility in Implementation
The Council for the Chief State School Officers, which represents state education heads, submitted a letter to the Department of Education warning that NCLB regulations don't give states enough flexibility to develop strong accountability systems or determine progress. Some of the Act's components would override state and local laws and constitutional provisions.
http://www.ccsso.org/positions/TitleIdraftregs.pdf

**Secretary Paige Chides States on Implementation
In a letter to State School Chiefs, Education Secretary Rod Paige praised states' progress on implementing the accountability measures of the No Child Left Behind Act, but urged those lowering standards or in other ways departing from accountability measures to rethink their actions.
http://www.nclb.gov/media/news/102302.html

**Desktop Reference on No Child Left Behind
The U.S. Department of Education has issued this Desktop Reference to give state and district officials a substantive overview of policy changes and emphases in the 2001 NCLB act. The manual details the purpose of the programs and how they work, what's new in the law, how performance is measured, and the responsibilities of state education departments.
http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/10-2002/10212002.html

**Overview of Legislation
The Education Testing Service (the SAT people) offers a briefing in lay language with some detail on key components of the No Child Left Behind Act.
http://www.ets.org/aboutets/child/overview.html

**Child Trends on No Children Left Behind Act
The latest Child, Youth and Family Indicators newsletter from Child Trends explores the impact of the No Child Left Behind legislation on state education measurements.
http://www.childtrends.org/PDF/ChildIndicatorSummer02.pdf