'No Child': A Polarizing Law

President Bush promotes the law on a January visit to Glen Burnie. (By Evan Vucci -- Associated Press)

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Debate over the No Child Left Behind legislation, signed into law in 2002, often breaks down along political lines. Here are some of its key provisions:

· Increases standards and testing for schools, requiring every public school student in the country to take state-administered reading and math tests in grades 3 through 8 and in high school.

· Provides free tutoring to students in failing schools.

· Gives individual states and school systems flexibility in how they spend federal funds.

· Allows parents of children in consistently low-performing schools to transfer their children to better-performing schools, including public charter schools, within their districts.

'No Child': A Polarizing Law

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