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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
FYI, the number for the federal government right now is 8.5%, and the missing 9 billion from NCLB represents over 3% of total national expenditures on primary and secondary education -- all of it money that should be getting spent in targetted districts. So, you are likely looking at a double-digit percentage of the budget of many urban school districts.
Like I said before, a well implemented program on these lines would be better than a half-assed implementation of another program - but we don't have a well implement NCLB act.
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I like the idea of Federal Testing. I don't know much about NCLB because it is federal. I know it has standardized testing which I like. But I am pretty sure I don't like the idea of penalizing schools that do poorly. You should penalize people, not schools. If a school is performing poorly change the staff, but don't cut off funding. I don't really know that much about NCLB, but if it operates that way I think the incentive system is all screwed up.
