During 2002, the Federal government, by Act of Congress, enacted a controversial No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB) . This plan was designed to improve the primary and secondary school student’s understanding, chiefly in the areas of English along with math. While this is an admirable objective, the construct of the system has failed to bring the desired outcome. Several educators have laid the blame on the method laid out in the No Child Left Behind plan. With its concentration squarely on English and math, pupils, teachers and administrators confront a task that imposes punishments if the goals are not met.

These punishments take the form of rescinded Federal funding, which makes a catch- 22 kind of condition. Even the funding which is appropriated has not been acquired by the towns. This has been normal procedure since the inception of No Child Left Behind. In 2002, roughly$ 4. 2 billion dollars which was appropriated in no way reached the states. In 2007, this financing gap grew to an astonishing$ 14 billion dollars! To add to the economic woes of the school districts, states all over the nation were suffering budget shortfalls in revenues, due to the state of the general market.

It resulted in several states discovering it necessary to generate budget cuts in several areas, such as, you guessed it, education! Although schools are demanded to administer standard tests in English and also math, the testing protocol of No Child Left Behind does not extend to other topics. Some schools were forced to drop other subjects from their curriculums if they were to sustain the Federal financing. This doesn’t seem like a balanced overhaul of our academic organization.