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How The No Child Left Behind Accountability System Works
- States design and implement annual tests in reading and math in grades 3-8
and high school
- Federal government provides states with annual funding to design and implement
tests ($387 million appropriated for Fiscal Year 2002).
- A 35 percent increase in Federal funds to help states and local schools train,
recruit, and retain high quality teachers.
- Federal funding for reading instruction is tripled ($300 million last year
to $900 million this year), along with a new emphasis on using scientifically
based instructional methods.
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Official U.S. Department of Education web site.