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Changing Environment
* student participation in and completion of
vocational and technical education programs that
lead to nontraditional training and employment.
States, with input from eligible recipients, could also
identify in the state plan additional indicators of performance
for vocational and technical education activities authorized
under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical
Education Act Amendments of 1998. States that had
previously developed state performance measures that met
the requirements of core indicators could use these measures
to gauge the progress of vocational and technical education
students.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 was signed into
law on January 8, 2002. This law focuses on four basic
education reform principles: stronger accountability for
results, increased flexibility and local control, expanded
options for parents, and an emphasis on teaching methods
that have been proven to work. Stronger accountability for results
requires states to be responsible for having strong academic
standards for what every child should know and learn in
reading, math, and science for elementary, middle, and high
schools. Beginning in the 2002 03 school year, schools are
required to administer tests in Grades 3 5, Grades 6 9, and
Grades 10 12 in all schools. Beginning in the 2005 06 school
year, tests will be administered every year in Grades 3 through
8. Beginning in the 2007 08 school year, science achievement
will also be tested. Increased flexibility and local control gives states
and local school districts greater say in using the federal
education dollars they receive every year. Local people will
have more say about which programs they think will help
their students the most. Additionally, No Child Left Behind
simplifies programs, so that schools do not have to cut
through as much red tape to get and use federal funding.
Expanded options forparents provide new ways to help students,
schools, and teachers. It gives parents options for helping
their children if they are enrolled in chronically failing
schools. Emphasis on teaching methods that have been proven to work
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