Restructuring: NCLB’s final solution

February 2008 • Volume 6 • Issue 1 

Federal and state governments are requiring big changes at public schools whose students persistently fail to meet state standards. With the federal No Child Left Behind Act in its sixth year, more schools will be facing the most radical form of change authorized by the law: restructuring.

Every school in the nation is expected to make “adequate yearly progress,” meaning a majority of students – regardless of poverty, disability, language or other reasons – meet or surpass benchmarks on state exams.