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A 5 page paper summarizing articles addressing school choice, charter schools and transferring public funds to private schools. It is clear that schools will need to arrive at workable means of honestly assessing students' achievement levels. Achievement testing has been the subject of controversy for years; as it costs increasing numbers of districts access to federal funds it is likely to being scrutinized even more closely. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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File: CC6_KSeduFinTNchoic.rtf
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schools and transferring public funds to private schools all are emotional issues that very much affect public education in most areas of the country. The purpose here is to
summarize articles addressing each topic. School Choice The first shoe to drop was the passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in 2002.
The other came crashing down on some of the countrys school systems receiving Title I funds after the third full year of operation under NCLB. Birmingham, Alabama schools
have failed to meet the testing standards required by NCLB, and the U.S. Department of Education ordered the district "to allow students from a dozen low-performing middle schools to transfer
to other schools" (Robelen, 2006; p. 7) as required by law. This was not an automatic order triggered by testing results, but rather
the result of a challenge by Birmingham-based advocacy group Citizens for Better Schools. The Department of Education already has set precedent for "bending" the rules of NCLB, not for
the purpose of subverting the spirit of the law but as a means of promoting achievement while also preserving federal funds received by school districts under Title I rules.
That "bending" occurred in Virginia, where the Department of Education gave permission to four districts "Virginia to effectively reverse the order of the NCLB sanctions and offer tutoring in the
second year and transfers in the third" (Robelen, 2006; p. 7). It appears that NCLB will not become the automatic budget destroyer that
administrators had feared. It also appears that the law will be solidly enforced after the Department of Education provides one or more means of attaining success in second -
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