No Child Left Behind Act - Updates

• From the Capital to the Classroom: State and Federal Efforts to Implement the No Child Left Behind Act (January, 2003). This report examines state and federal actions to implement the No Child Left Behind Act during the first year of that Act, raises issues to be watched over the next several years as states and school districts begin to fully implement the Act, and makes recommendations for insuring that the Act's goals will be realized. There is information regarding paraprofessionals in the report. This link will take you to the Center on Educational Policy. You can download the pdf file of the entire report (135 pages), or a summary or press release. A news conference held over C-Span on Jan. 4, 2003 highlighted this report.  http://www.ctredpol.org/

• Selected notations relating to Paraprofessionals from the Federal Register regarding NCLB. Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged, Final Regulations, Nov. 26, 2002. This pdf is 11 pages long...
    Summary of NCLB Final Act for Paras 12202002.pdf

• The No Child Left Behind Act. Title 1: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged. Summary of Final regulations. November 26, 2002. This link will give you the 152 page summary of the NCLB regulations. Comments and responses by Secretary of Education Rod Paige, regarding interpretations and clarifications of the NCLB act are reviewed individually. Definitions and rules are clarified. The document will be 152 pages long in HTML format... http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/2002-4/120202a.html

• Department of Education 34 CFR Part 200 Title 1-Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged; Final Rule 12/02/02. Go to the Department of Educations website and download this 64 page (Federal Register) document of the final rules of the NCLB act. This document is also summarized in the other document listed above on this page and is in more detail: "The No Child Left Behind Act. Title 1: Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged. Summary of Final regulations. November 26, 2002." Here is the link to the latest pdf... http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/finrule/index.html

• Paraprofessional requirements in NCLB (Draft Version).
  The U.S. Department of Education has released draft guidance on the paraprofessional requirements in NCLB.   http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SASA/paraguidance.pdf

• "NCLB and Paraeducator Status" is a 1 page summary about No Child Left Behind Legislation requiring schools to have "highly qualified" paraeducators by January 2005.

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