Richey Puntarelli Mr.

Cheney
AP Government 10/25/2010
Many-a Child Left Behind Act
I. Preamble
For too long the US government has endorsed a failing method for improving
education: the No Child Left Behind Act. Contrary to the popular belief that
this act has improved education on a multitude of levels and heightened
standardized test scores, the simple fact remains: it is an inefficient method for
improving education, and it instead caters to the general population's inherent
love for stupidity and idleness. The Many-a Child Left Behind Act will seek to
curb this by taking the “redeeming” qualities of the No Child Left Behind Act
and incorporating new and reformed ideas of its own. The Many-a Child Left
Behind Act will serve as a new bill in itself, and in the process will amend the
No Child Left Behind Act. For simplicities sake the Many-a Child Left Behind
Act may be abbreviated “the MACLBA” in the following document. While
there is an argument that the No Child Left Behind Act has helped in a select
few cases, the MACLBA will serve as a new and re-vamped method for the
same ideals. Like the No Child Left Behind Act, the MACLBA will support
standards-based education reform, however it will take a much more radical
approach that is, in the end, much more efficient.
II. Section I
The MACLBA will seek to better the quality of education in the United States
while at the same time cutting loose “unnecessary burdens” that are holding
back so many school districts. Standards will be set at the State level, however
any standards set by the States that are lower than the federally set
“recommended” level will be invalidated from any further qualifications for
benefits. All school districts that have complied with the State set levels of
proficiency will then need 100% of their students to have met the requirements
before they will be eligible to receive federal funds.
Subsection A.
Students that do not meet the required State levels of proficiency in the core
subjects may be asked to leave without any form or fashion of compensation.
Put simply: their stupidity or inability to achieve academic success have cost
them dearly, and as a result their education will be hampered.
Subsection B.
Schools that meet all of the aforementioned requirements in full shall receive
federal funding not in excess of $500,000 per school.
Subsection C.
Performance in each school will be evaluated by State-standardized tests, and
funding will be allocated on an annual basis.
Subsection D.
The MACLBA will only apply to grades 9-12 of the public school system.
III.Section II
The MACLBA will take effect exactly 50 days from its signing. From that
point on the federal government will have 100 days to come up with a
reasonable federal recommendation for levels of proficiency. After the federal
recommendation has been set, the states will have 50 days to set their
standards. From that point on the school districts will have 115 days to either
accept or ignore the new standards, and then reconstruct their curriculum and
level of teaching to fit the new bill.