Parents -- The No Child Left Behind Law Won't Do Much For Your
Child
Past experience with federal education programs predicts that
the No Child Left Behind act (NCLB) will also fail parents whose
children are doing poorly in school. The federal government has
spent over $120 billion on Title 1 programs for low-income
students since 1965. Yet the literacy rates for these children
today are appalling and the achievement gap between low-income
children and their peers has not closed.
If the U.S. Department of Education wants to give real choice to
parents, they should not be tinkering with a failed
government-controlled school system that, by its very nature,
strangles free choice and competition.
Americans have been blessed with a system that gives them almost
unlimited choices in their daily lives for almost four hundred
years