The No Child Left Behind Act is potentially the most important school initiative to come along since the country embraced compulsory education in the early 20th century. But the goal of providing all children with qualified teachers and high-quality schooling may slip away unless Congress provides the money needed to do the job and holds the line against groups that are working to undermine the law.
Those interest groups are especially peeved by a provision that requires the states to raise achievement levels for all categories of students, including children with disabilities, who have usually been shunted into separate classes and excluded from state achievement tests. A hard-core faction of school administrators and legislators argue
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