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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)

US Department of Education & ISBE

2008

Correspondence with the U.S. Department of Education

Letter from Superintendent Koch requesting flexibility for schools and districts (March 2007)
Response from USDE approving flexibility (May 2007)

Select Guidance, Regulations from U.S. Department of Education

Standards, Assessment, and AYP

Letter to State and local education leadersoutlining adequate yearly progress provisions under No Child Left Behind (July 24, 2002)

Title I--Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged; 34 CFR Part 200; Final regulations; correction (January 8, 2003)

Standards and Assessments Non-Regulatory Guidance (March 10, 2003)

Students with Disabilities

Measuring the Achievement of Students with Disabilities
Final regulations allowing states to develop modified academic achievement standards for certain students with disabilities. (April 2007)

Guidance on final regulations that allow states to develop modified achievement standards for certain students with disabilities (April 2007)

Assessments for students with significant cognitive disabilities
Final regulations for the inclusion of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities in Title I assessments (December 2003)

Alternate Achievement Standards for Students with the Most Significant Cognitive Disabilities Non-Regulatory Guidance (August 2005)
MS Word .doc (810K) pdf (272K)

English Language Learners

Accountability for LEP Students -- Title I regulations to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) students meet challenging standards. Includes definition of recently arrived LEP students. (September 2006)

To see all documents published by the USDE, go to: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oese/legislation.html