What is the Federal No Child Left Behind Law and how does it affect school choice?
No Child Left Behind is a federal law that provides an overall system for improving student achievement. Saint Paul Public Schools works very hard to make sure that each of our schools is making Adequate Yearly Progress as defined by the Minnesota Department of Education. Statewide tests are given each year to our students and those scores are combined with a number of other factors including attendance and test participation to determine which schools are making sufficient progress. In the schools that have been identified as needing improvement, the district, teachers, support staff and families are making extraordinary efforts to provide extra help to those children with before- and after-school tutoring programs, intensive professional development for teachers, and additional support. If a school has not been making Adequate Yearly Progress for two years in a row, parents and guardians have the option to transfer their children to another public school. If a school fails to make Ad
