Remember when the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act was signed into law in 2002 by former President George W. Bush? The intention of NCLB was to hold schools accountable to ensure that all students were granted similar opportunities regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.
Although NCLB had good intentions, it produced unintended consequences such as high stakes testing and tethering funds with performance on high stakes tests.
In 2015, NCLB was replaced with the Every Student Succeeds Act, which sought to meet similar goals. Although the objective of both of these laws was and still is to make sure all students, regardless of race, gender, and socioeconomic status, receive an equal chance to learn and grow in school, they have failed miserably.
Fast forward to 2021. We have seen that those in positions of power have used COVID-19 as leverage for money, power, or whatever else can be used to their benefit, regardless of the damage these decisions have wrought on millions of American families.
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