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The No Child Left Behind act was put into place in 2002 for all K-12 public school in the United States by President George W. Bush.

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The main focus of NCLB is to close student achievement gaps by providing children with a fair and equal opportunity.

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1. Accountability: to ensure those students who are disadvantaged, achieve academic proficiency
2. Flexibility: Allows school districts flexibility in how they use federal education funds to improve student achievement.
3. Research - Based education: Empathizes educational programs and practices that have been proven effective through scientific research.
4. Parent options: Increases the choices avaliable to the parents of students attending Title 1 schools.

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NCLB is accountable for how kids learn and achieve. It did this through annual testing, reporting, and improvement targets, and penalties schools.

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1. Improvement of test scores
2. Quality state academic content
3. High teacher qualifications
4. Extra help
5. Quality Education for the under served
6. Parental understanding
7. Advantage for minority students

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1. Doubts of the Act Effectiveness
2. Federal Underfunding
3. Bias and deep flaws
4. More focus on test scores
5. Lack of constitutional authority by the government over education
6. Very high teacher qualifications
7. Failure to address reasons for lack of achievement

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Total federal education funding increased from 42.2 Billion to 55.7 Billion from 2001-2004. Funding was used for school Technology in hopes of enhancing education used for technology.

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In 2012, President Obama granted waivers from NLCB too many states. Granting through waivers in exchange for that those states have agreed to raise standards, improve accountability, and under take essential reforms to improve teacher effectiveness. 8 out of the 32 NCLB waivers are conditional meaning those states have no entirely satisfied the requirements.

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February 9, 2012: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Tennessee
February 15, 2012: New Mexico
May 29, 2012: Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island
June 29, 2012: Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Utah, and Virginia
July 6, 2012: Washington and Wisconsin

Conditional Waivers: Arizona, Orgeon, Kansas, Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, and Maine

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ESSA act was passed on December 2015 that governs the US K-12 Public education policy. This law is in replacement of the NCLB Act.