One Significant Difficulty with the Initial No Child Left Behind

question 45

Multiple Choice

One significant difficulty with the initial No Child Left Behind law was that

• A)the initial grants offered to states were too low to motivate compliance.
• B)the federal government lacked bureaucratic manpower to analyze the data it demanded the states collect for it.
• C)the questionable constitutionality of the act slowed state agencies' desire to follow it.
• D)states were allowed to set their own standards for what constituted acceptable student performance.
• E)too many tasks necessary for implementing the law were outsourced to private for-profit education companies.

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