During 2002, the Federal government, by Action of Congress, enacted their controversial No Child Left Behind Act(NCLB) . This program was planned to develop the primary and secondary school student’s education, chiefly in the areas of English and math. Although this is an admirable objective, the build of the system has failed to bring the preferred outcome. Several educators have laid the fault on the approach laid out within the No Child Left Behind system. With its target squarely on English and math, scholars, teachers and administrators face a task that imposes punishments if the goals are not achieved.

Such punishments have the type of rescinded Federal financing, which produces a catch- 22 type of condition. Even the funding which is appropriated has not been received by the states. This has been normal exercise since the inception of No Child Left Behind. In 2002, nearly$ 4. 2 billion bucks which was appropriated never reached the states. In 2007, this money gap grew to an astonishing$ 14 billion dollars! To add to the monetary woes of the school districts, states all around the country were going through funding shortfalls in revenues, due to the state of the general economy.

This key fact led to numerous states finding it necessary to make budget cuts in several places, such as, you guessed it, education! While schools are expected to administer consistent tests in English as well as math, the tests protocol of No Child Left Behind does not extend to other courses. Some schools were forced to drop other subjects from their curriculums if they were to sustain the Federal funding. This doesn’t seem like a wholesome overhaul of our academic program.