AFT No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Task Force 9/28/05, 2005

Letter from Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to the state legislature with attached Act to Reform Education, September 22, 2005; policy brief by National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing: "Fixing the NCLB Accountability System," summer 2005; memo from NYSUT executive vice president Toni Cortese re materials for NCLB Task Force meeting, including outline of questions to be discussed, September 21, 2005; spreadsheet, NCLB Continues to Challenge Schools in 2005, listing Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status by state, percent of schools needing improvement, percent of students who scored at or above proficient on state tests, and other measures compared with 2004; description of the No Child Left Behind Reform Act (S. 724) by Sen. Christopher Dodd; description of the No Child Left Behind Improvement Act; article by Stateline.org, "Higher Bar Tripping Schools," August 12; list of proposals to amend NCLB's AYP formula; explanations of selected proposals to fix AYP; related memos. See also No Child Left Behind; see also Committee of Practitioners.