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Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 11:12 AM by bif
Did you know this about the No Child Left Behind Act. unless you sign a form, your child's records are available to military recruiters? They snuck that little clause in.
Here's the official word.
> "In January 2002, President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act > (NCLB) into law. No Child Left Behind reauthorized the Elementary and > Secondary Education Act (ESEA) - the principal federal law affecting education > from kindergarten through high school. Buried within the 650 pages of the No > Child Left Behind Act is Section 9528, which requires secondary schools to > release student directory information for juniors and seniors to military > recruiters upon request. Directory information consists of a studentâ??s > name, home address, and phone number. Under the Elementary and Secondary > Education Act of 1965, high schools were only required to give military > recruiters the same access to campuses that was given to professional and > educational recruiters. The recent change in the law mandates that high > schools give military recruiters access to campuses even if those campuses do > not open their doors to professional and educational recruiters. > > This provision applies to any local education agency (LEA â?? i.e. the local > school district) â?? public or private - receiving federal funds under the No > Child Left Behind Act. Schools refusing to provide studentsâ?? contact > information to military recruiters do so at the risk of losing federal > funding. However, private secondary schools that maintain a religious > objection to service in the Armed Forces, such as the Quakers for example, are > exempted from this part of the legislation. > > The law does contain an option for an individual student or parent of a > student to request that the studentâ??s directory information not be released > without the parentâ??s prior written consent. Without this express > â??opting-out,â?<caron> the information will be released by the local education > agency. Local school districts are responsible for informing parents about > the â??opt-outâ?<caron> provision, although in practice many donâ??t.
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