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Education Department expands tutoring experiments
Thursday, July 27, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- The Bush administration says it again will bend the rules of the No Child Left Behind law, intending to get thousands more poor children into tutoring....

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The law requires schools that get federal poverty aid and fall short of their yearly progress goals for two straight years to offer transfers to students. After three years of failure, schools must offer low-income parents a choice of tutors.

The new policy will let 23 school districts flip that order, offering transfers second.

That is significant because parents prefer tutoring to moving their child to a new school....The districts are in Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia. Just four Virginia districts were involved when the experiment began last year. Spellings opted to expand it nationwide after seeing signs that it boosted interest in tutoring.

Most states did not bother applying for the flexibility because they did not meet the criteria. The five states that won the department's blessing were the only ones to apply....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/07/27/nclb.tutoring.ap/index.html