And we promote parent involvement while pulling stunts like this?
Talking Both Sides of the Mouth Award
This just in, as reported by Alexander Russo at This Week in Education -
re: NCLB (No Child Left Behind):
NCLB: Obama's SuperSecret Special Ed Diversion Program
Wow. A little-noticed provision in the Obama education "blueprint" for NCLB --
inserted at the behest of the Gates Foundation and/or Pearson and Comcast
(no one's quite sure) -- allows schools to identify children as special needs and
divert them into a resource room for up to a full school year --without parents'
knowledge or approval or the consent of the teacher of record. According to
section 45.321, a district can "identify, at its discretion, up to 5 (five) percent of student enrollment not already identified as having special