The educational community is clearly unsettled by the President's "No
             Child Left behind Act" (NCLB) of 2001. Even though one of the strongest
             planks of the president's platform was his promise to address the faltering
             performance of the US educational system, the resulting bill had sent
             shivers of nervous tension up and down the collective educational spine.
             Nationally the country looked forward to a president who would do more for
             the educational progress of the country than just throw more money at the
             system. Nationally, the president's record of reviving faltering education
             in his own state gave parents hope that their students would once again be
             successfully educated.
             However, the NCLB act is not written in the fuzzy language, which has
             become typical of the educational professionals. It contains objective
             standards for academic progress and tangible fiscal consequences for
             failure to improve. Schools that do not reach objective educational
             standards by the 2008 school year risk loosing federal funds. The
             president, in his straight forward Texas style, identified the feelings of
             the nation's parents well when he said that educators have been given a
             trust. The wellbeing of the nation's children has been entrusted to them.
             Educators also are entrusted with a significant amount of federal funding,
             and the two resources, children and funds, are given to the public
             education system with the expectation that the community will receive back
             well educated children who are ready to move into the community as well
             educated adults. The president called this a reasonable return on our
             investment.'
             According to the government sponsored web center for the NCLB, the
             purpose of the act is four fold.
             1. create an environment for stronger accountability for results
             from schools
             2. Provide more freedom for states and communities in how they use
             federal monie...