Howard "Buck" McKeon, (R-CA), the ranking Republican on the House Education and Labor committee introduced the "State and Local Flexibility ... maintains No Child Left Behind's expanded role ...

Congress has begun hearings on the reauthori­zation of No Child Left Behind ... expanded federal power in education while doing little to eliminate bureaucracy, restore state and local control ...

The unprecedented extension of the federal role in education ... Before NCLB, local control was dominant, leaving federal and state governments to supporting roles. NCLB expanded the federal ...

No Child Left Behind was signed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to much pomp and promise. The law dramatically expanded ... enhancing local control, and providing more flexibility to set ...

Fall 2011 – President Barack Obama offers states flexibility from key mandates of the NCLB law, in exchange for embracing his education redesign ... year 2007, for example, annual funding ...

As Congressional committees opened hearings on reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) in mid-March, conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill unveiled a proposal to give states greater ...

The politics surrounding NCLB remain extremely ... government’s role in public education should be weakened in favor of more state flexibility and local control. Above all, most everyone is ...

THE FIRST of two lawsuits challenging the No Child Left Behind act has been dismissed ... of the federal government to mandate ... a local education agency ... to spend any funds or incur any ...

Twenty out of 35 states issued waivers from No Child Left Behind requirements can now use their 21st Century Community Learning Center funds to support both expanded-learning and after-school ...

The unprecedented extension of the federal role in education ... Before NCLB, local control was dominant, leaving federal and state governments to supporting roles. NCLB expanded the federal ...