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The major change since my HS graduation which I saw bring down my whole public school district was[b] No Kid Left Behind, which today is Common Core[/b]. Once the federal government started interceding to local city, county and state school districts with their recommended high level standards and tying MONEY to it, things went downhill fast.  2-4 standardized tests a year started, ECs moved to after school since not on the tests, curriculum rewrites for K-8, experienced teachers just retired or left, science and social studies took a back seat, gym/music/art programs and frequency got halved.  Schools went beserk trying to get any which set of kids scoring proficient on these standardized tests because, increasingly, the federal dollars were 10%, 20%, 30%+ of the districts budget.  Oh, and you should see the step function in budgets when Fed $$$$$ get infused in 2000+ and again with CC. Not funny. Incentives all off.

So that's what changed drastically since graduating before 2005. NKLB rolled out in early 2000s. [/quote]

This is factually incorrect. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was the 2001 re-authorization by Congress of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Common Core State Standards were a set of standards developed beginning in 2009 by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.[/quote]

^^^^Also, the current re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act is the Every Child Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA). So if you wanted to, you could say that NCLB today is ESSA.[/quote]

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