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President Obama Proposes to Change No Child Left Behind Law

President Obama presented a 41-page proposal to Congress yesterday on how he would like to change the No Child Left Behind Law. His proposal includes testing students every year in math and reading but also using scores in other subjects to measure progress.If a student were to start the year two years behind in a subject and made one year's growth during the school year, that would be considered a success. Under the law now, that is considered a failure.
The new proposal would authorize $29 billion in aid for schools, which is a 16% increase. Most of this money would be delivered through competitve grants, which may have the effect of uneven distribution among the states.It will be interesting to see how this effects our local Texas schools.

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Cherrie Leggett Kilby graduated from Southwestern University with a BS in Education and has taught in elementary and middle school for over twenty years in the U.S., Taiwan, and Japan. In addition she has taught English as a Second Language in China. Cherrie pursued a Master's degree in Education with reading as her area of specialty. She continues to teach special needs students at the elementary level and also teaches reading at the local community college. Cherrie was a tutor for Creative Tutors when it was first founded and loved working with the families she met. She wanted to continue to make a difference and started working as an area manager in 2005.   

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