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As NCLB sanctions pile up, what next?

Will more of this beget more of this? As BoardBuzz has been saying for months, failure by Congress to dramatically change the No Child Left Behind / ESEA law simply means more and more schools and districts facing severe sanctions because of an inaccurate but uncorrected federal accountability framework. But as the Associated Press article notes, the number of districts facing severe sanctions under NCLB has topped 400 and covers more than half the states. And like the rain swollen creeks in BoardBuzz's neck of the woods, it will keep rising. So what now? Without any substantive fixes on the legislative horizon, how many more schools and districts will face interventions like state takeovers in the next year(s)? Do state departments of education even have the capacity to take over districts and lead improvements? Don't all jump up at once to answer that question. So...where is Congress? Letting the Administration, which has refused to adequately fund NCLB, call the shots on changes is not the kind of help school districts need.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).