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Pulling back the curtains on wage-theft enforcement in MN; Trump's latest attack is on RFK, Jr; NM LGBTQ+ equality group endorses 2024 'Rock Star' candidates; Michigan's youth justice reforms: Expanded diversion, no fees.

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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says rebuilding Baltimore's Key Bridge will be challenging and expensive. An Alabama Democrat flips a state legislature seat and former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82.

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Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.

Critics: National Ed Program Isn't Making the Grade

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"No Child Left Behind" has produced mostly frustration according to many educators. The president of the North Dakota Education Association says while the intention of the law is a good one, it has gone wrong in practice. "No Child Left Behind" was designed to allow all children equal access to quality education. But according to NDEA President Gloria Lokken, smaller districts like those in North Dakota have a hard time meeting the strict requirements.

"There are human beings in those classrooms and with all kinds of abilities and needs; every ten year-old is not going to be at a fourth grade level. So the expectations are beyond what we can do and that creates frustration. "

Monty Neill of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing believes the law spends too much time wagging an accusing finger at school districts for their failures. He's seeing a lot of inflated test scores because many teachers are teaching to the test instead of testing students on their growth.

"We need a system that focuses on helping schools build their capacity to educate all children well instead of labeling and punishing schools, which is what we do now."

100 national civil rights, education, disability advocacy, and religious groups have signed on to a "Joint Organizational Statement" calling for Congress to overhaul "No Child Left Behind" by changing testing requirements and increasing funding to schools to meet the costs of the program.

"No Child Left Behind" was signed into law by President Bush in 2002.



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