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March 24, 2004
 Education Officials
for NCLB Flexibility Open Letter
As chief state school
officers who have been implementing No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in
the field these
last two years, we are writing about what we have determined to be
a problem
central to the execution of the Act, and to suggest a solution
that upholds the purpose
and the promise of NCLB. All
of us wholeheartedly agree with the goal of raising standards and
expectations for academic
achievement of all students. We concur that schools should be held
accountable for
results as they embrace this primary mission. A
troubling issue, however, is that without any changes to the law,
calculations suggest that
within a few years, the vast majority of all schools will be
identified as in need of improvement.
Many of these schools will be given that designation despite
having shown steady
and significant improvement for all groups of students.
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