A Resolution for Relief from No Child Left Behind Expenditures
WHEREAS, the California State budget reduces education funding by 7.4 Billion dollars this year and the Federal Stimulus money allotted to California to stabilize educational funding amounts to only 6 Billion dollars, leaving a deficit of 1.4 Billion dollars , and
WHEREAS the common consensus is that the sanctions imposed by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) have failed to produce positive results, and
WHEREAS it is well known that NCLB imposes requirements on schools districts and demands actions from those districts while providing no funding for those mandates, there has been no public focus on the fact that the cost to implement programs designed to bring under performing groups up to NCLB compliant standards have been estimated to be Thousands of Dollars Per Student and would require massive increases in funding,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that in these financially difficult times, with our public schools in dreadful financial straits, the Northern Solano Democratic Club recognizes that it is unconscionable to require our schools to continue funding NCLB compliance activities, and, for this reason, the Northern Solano Democratic Club proposes that public schools be given relief from the mandates of NCLB for the period of one year, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Northern Solano Democratic Club calls upon the California Democratic Delegations to the United States Senate and House of Representatives to introduce and to work for the passage of legislation that will suspend, for one year, all NCLB compliance activities that require the expenditure of local school or district funds.
March 9, 2009