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Article: Talking details on NCLB.(Administrator Profile: SUPERERINTENDENT PASCAL D. FORGIONE JR.)
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- District Administration
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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WHEN PASCAL D. FORGIONE Jr., the Austin (Texas) Independent School District superintendent of schools, discusses the federal No Child Left Behind law, he has a lot to say. Many school administrators, including Forgione, agree the law, which is currently under review by Congress for reauthorization, has good intentions but that federal mandates that are not funded and with a one-size-fits-all package do not work in American schools. Not all students learn the same way or at the same rate.
Over this past school year, the Austin district, which has an operating budget of about $700 million, spent approximately $1,600 per student on NCLB mandates alone, in addition to ...