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3 years, 3 months ago

How many US public school students missed out on free private after-school tutoring during this 2006-07 school year?

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 contains a provision that makes free tutoring available to public school students who meet certain eligibility requirements (priority is given to low-income students attending Title 1 Schools) but public awareness of the program is very low. Hint: see FreeNCLBTutoring.org.
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nyssa | 3 years, 2 months ago
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I will bet 99% of the eligible students missed out on this. yes, I pulled the number out of a hat.) Since the beginning, NCLB has been underfunded or unfunded all together. Quality Volunteers are hard to come by in the most needed districts. Some schools don't want to admit they are failing the kids and reach out to the community for help. I can go on and on. I'm not sure you want me to.
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I'm the former Education Coordinator for our local Boys & Girls Club after-school program. In the education aspect of our program it was our goal to provide homework help, tutoring, enrichment and remediation for the boys & girls. And this was before NCLB and we could not get any collaborations with the schools.

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srgothard | 3 years, 3 months ago
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I've been trying to tutor for that, and it is like pulling teeth to get it all set up. My theory is that public schools don't really care if have of the students are failing, because they get paid anyway.

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conpecci | 3 years, 2 months ago Report

That is certainly part of the resaon for such a low participation rate. It is ultimately the responsibility of school districts, Title 1 schools, their administrators and teachers to implement the program (i.e. getting tutors and eligible students to participate) and even the federal Department of Education has admitted they've done a very poor job at that (see: comments from former US Secretary of Education, Margaret Spelling, on October 28, 2008 retrieved at http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/10/10282008.html).

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