Fwd: [arn2-strategy] Colorado Educators Assail NCLB -- Say Goals Unrealistic and Underfunded

[Susan Harman <susanharman@igc.org>]

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> From: Bob Schaeffer <bobschaeffer@earthlink.net>
> Date: Tue Jan 23, 2007  4:36:23 AM US/Pacific
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> Subject: [arn2-strategy] Colorado Educators Assail NCLB -- Say Goals 
> Unrealistic and Underfunded
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> EDUCATORS ASSAIL NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
> ALMOST ALL IN A POLL SENT OUT BY SEN. KEN SALAZAR SAY THE FEDERAL LAW'S
> GOALS ARE NOT ACHIEVABLE
> Denver Post -- January 23, 2006
> by Allison Sherry
>
> Colorado teachers, principals and administrators overwhelmingly say the
> federal education law No Child Left Behind is unrealistic and
> underfunded, according to a survey conducted by U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar's
> office.
>
> Almost all of those who responded to the survey - sent to all Colorado
> school districts as well as a handful of parent advocacy organizations
> and administrators - said the law's goal of all students reaching 100
> percent proficiency by the 2013-14 school year was not achievable.
>
> Teachers also said they favor charting student academic growth over
> time, versus the law's comparison of the same grade levels year after 
> year.
>
> Roughly 2,000 people responded to the survey, sent out last summer,
> incuding 1,600 teachers, 119 principals and 117 parents.
>
> The federal No Child Left Behind - signed into law Jan. 8, 2002 -
> requires students in most grades to take annual assessment tests and
> requires districts to make "adequate yearly progress."
>
> The reauthorization discussion will take place this year in a much
> different political landscape in Congress than in 2002, with Democrats
> controlling both the House and the Senate.
>
> Salazar released the results of the survey Monday, as well as a letter
> he wrote to Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., about what Colorado education
> experts and parents said about the federal law. Kennedy is the chairman
> of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and 
> was
> an architect of the law.
>
> Salazar spokesman Cody Wertz said Monday that the senator will reach 
> out
> again to educators and policymakers this spring before reauthorization
> hearings begin.
>
> Colorado Education Association spokeswoman Deborah Fallin said Monday
> that teacher union members "support accountability," but "it's clear
> that between CSAP and NCLB the pendulum has swung too far."The CSAPs 
> are
> Colorado's assessment tests.
>
>     http://www.denverpost.com/ci_5064724
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