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Reforming No Child Left Behind by Allowing States to Opt Out: An A-PLUS for Federalism

Dan Lips –
July 5, 2007
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As Congress considers reauthorization of the No
Child Left Behind Act of 2001, it should recognize
the need for fundamental reform of federal K–12
education policy. Both versions of the A-PLUS Act
would change the course of federal education policy,
which since 1965 has followed a path of greater
federal control of education, the proliferation of
bureaucracy, higher administrative costs, and new
federal programs.