ABSTRACT
In 2005, President George W. Bush (2001-2009) amended President Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act once again, giving us No Child Left Behind (NCLB), an approach greatly expanding the influences of Federal and State governments in terms of student testing and the measurement of teacher proficiency. The program’s goal was that every student would be proficient in math and reading at his or her grade level according to his or her state’s standard by the year 2014. If schools receiving federal aid fell behind, their funding would be cut.
