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[More than a quarter of U.S. schools did not make] adequate yearly progress ... It is absolutely unconscionable for the president to demand that states pay for federally required programs without properly funding them. Since NCLB passed, we have been hearing horror stories from states desperately looking for money to meet requirements.

Howard Dean (1948-)

While the ideals espoused in No Child Left Behind (NCLB) are admirable, the realities of the Bush plan are not, ... NCLB imposes rigid and expensive mandates on public schools. It judges adequate yearly progress using a one-size-fits-all formula, a measure that gives schools an incentive to lower testing standards in order to meet federal requirements and, sadly, to push out students that may bring down a school's average score.

Howard Dean (1948-)

We want all students to be reading at grade level and meet the AYP (adequate yearly progress) requirements of the No Child Left Behind,

You often see that in inner-city schools where there's so much pressure on those educators to meet federal [adequate yearly progress] requirements ... it's about getting the lowest proficient kids to a proficient level, and they let their high-achieving kids slide back. I would salute Seattle.

William Sanders

Sure, these families would like us to make [adequate yearly progress]. But let's be realistic. They're looking at their children, ... But on the other side of it, they do want their kids coming from good schools.

We, once again, are going to meet AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) in every building,

You have to have 95 percent participation in testing and then an attendance of 95 percent, as well as making proficiency. If schools don't make adequate yearly progress, it is a big problem.

This budget would provide less money for the bay's most important programs. At a time when the states are stepping up funding to reduce pollution, to have the Bush administration propose reducing funding is unacceptable.

The overall funding is still less than half of what is needed to comply with (NCLB), leaving the burden on states and local taxpayers.

I think it's a Canadian thing. I've heard horror stories about the States, where it's very much like everyone's talking numbers and you don't mingle with the competition. I think that's absolutely crazy. I mean, we talk about our numbers, but I would never let work interfere with whom I want to be friends with.

[Worries about accountability may also have played a role in the decision to open brand-new schools rather than add teachers and students to existing schools. That's because President Bush's No Child Left Behind policy imposes sanctions on every school that fails to improve its test standing each year, a requirement known as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). By the state's own accountability measure, the schools in Orleans Parish have the lowest performance scores in the state; East Baton Rouge Parish is 10 places higher on the list of 65. The state department of education has already asked federal education secretary Margaret Spellings to limit AYP requirements for 20052006 to students enrolled in the same school for two years.] I am reluctant to waive, even partially, AYP or approve broad changes in state AYP definitions at this time, ... the linchpin of the No Child Left Behind accountability system.

Margaret Spellings

The demand is there. We are booked two weeks in advance in trying to get our customers in. ... Last month's gas bills are coming in, and we're hearing the horror stories.

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Those numbers are outrageous, ... We need to let the Department of Education know that we need funds to support preventive programs. It's always the same schools that apply and receive funding. Well, that's going to end. Local schools will receive federal money to be spent on these needed programs.

I'm of the opinion that school systems in the United States are not funded properly. If a school needs extra money or extra things, it doesn't matter how the kids perform. I think these schools need a lot more money and a lot more effort put into them.

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