question about "no child left behind"

[fencesitter]

There is an article in the NYT today: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/education/13child.html?hp

Checking the multmedia map, the states that are not reporting yet are many of those big red states from the south up through the middle.
Does NCLB apply to private schools, religious schools, and home schooled kids or just public schools?

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Public only.

There's an arm's-length relationship with homeschoolers, but it's weak, and their aggregate numbers are small.

As far as private & religious schools go, you don't take the King's shilling, you don't fight the King's wars.

[zazen]

2. hmmm--I think just public, in that it's tied to funding; not licensing boards of privates, parochial

I'm 80% sure of that. I think the licensing boards of private schools (usually regional accrediting agencies) and parochial systems come up with their own standards, but all of them have to meet certain statewide criteria for high school diplomas. That's different, though.

NCLB is more about forcing schools to have certain types of teachers and achieve certain types of collective scores, by predetermined demographics, on a range of items, some of which are district or school-level determined. If these aren't met after a few years, funding is imperiled and the kids can go to other schools, get vouchers, etc. So it applies to public charters and public systems, but not the rest.

[fencesitter]

4. So, is NCLB a sort of trojan horse?

Schools cannot meet too high testing standards while having their local budgets cut, federal money is denied, vouchers are given out, hey, we finally are getting rid of that socialized public schooling! I know a lot of childless and elderly wingers who hate to pay school taxes w/o using the system.

[ulysses]

5. bingo.

An ex-staffer from the Bush DOE admitted as much a couple of months back. They want to privatize the schools.

[LWolf]

3. Public nt