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September 14, 2007

September 14, 2007

EMedia, WA: School Choice Advocates Call for Effective Parental Options in No Child Left Behind - 18 State and National Groups Urge Congress, President Bush to Include Effective, Meaningful Choice in Reauthorization of No Child Left Behind.

Cornell Daily Sun, NY: Lawsuit questions credentials of Teach for America participants - Teach for America, a program that annually places 5,000 recently graduated college students in inner-city schools in an effort to improve the education system, may be stalled in its cause due to a lawsuit challenging a loophole in the No Child Left Behind Act. Lawyers from San Francisco-based Public Advocates claim that because NCLB allows teachers like those in TFA to gain teaching credentials through alternative certification programs, many teachers are mislabeled as ‘highly qualified’.

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