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September 6, 2007Evaluation of Flexibility Under No Child Left Behind (Volumes I-IV) |
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From Urban Institute: These reports examine three programs established under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 to give public school districts greater flexibility in the use of their federal funds. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) relied on two notable policy instruments to improve education: accountability and flexibility. As a strategy for improving education, it calls for establishing challenging standards of performance, developing rigorous and scientifically based systems for monitoring progress toward attaining these standards, and introducing meaningful consequences for schools that consistently fail to make satisfactory progress. Transferability allows state education agencies to transfer up to 50 percent of a fiscal year's nonadministrative funds allocated for state-level activities under certain programs. Similarly, the Transferability authority allows local education agencies generally to transfer up to 50 percent of the formula funds allocated to certain federal programs in order to address local priorities. The entire report for Volume II is available in PDF format. REAP consists of two major grant programs, one for small, rural districts known as the Small Rural School Achievement Program (SRSA) and another for low-income, rural districts called the Rural and Low-Income Schools Program (RLIS).
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