No Child Left Behind: Offshoring Work from Chicago to Calcutta

[LWolf]

I am just speechless. I've vigorously and loudly opposed NCLB since it was written. I don't know what to say anymore.

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American companies that move jobs offshore have been harshly criticized, so it's surprising to learn that the U.S. government itself, through a little-known provision of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), is providing a taxpayer-funded windfall for tutoring companies in India.

NCLB requires school districts to offer tutoring to some students in schools that fail to meet the law's flawed adequate yearly progress requirements. Districts can contract with firms to provide that tutoring through computers and Internet hookups instead of classrooms, and, as a result, the United States is sending NCLB funds to tutoring companies in India (audio link). National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" reports that tutoring firms in India pay employees as little as $230 a month for full-time work.

more:

http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/closer_look/022505.htm

[Spinzonner]

1. Hey, what's the problem

so they'll get their tutoring in the homeless shelter they live at when their parent(s) lose their jobs.

Just part of the No Job Left at Home Supplement to the NCLB Act

[LWolf]

2. NJLHS

lol

We could spend weeks compiling acronyms for everything the Bush administration is, and is not, leaving behind.

No War Left Unfought
No Public Institution Left Standing

etc.