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For Immediate
Release
4/25/07
CONTACT:
David Broderic
717-787-2637
Statement of Senator James
Rhoades at Conclusion of NCLB Hearing
HARRISBURG – Senate Education Committee chairman James J.
Rhoades (R-29) issued the following statement today, at the conclusion of the
committee's second public hearing on the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
law.
Rhoades pointed out that, even though federal funding to support
NCLB has declined, the Commonwealth has invested $845 million in new state
funding for the accountability block grant program and the education assistance
tutoring program. Both are programs that the General Assembly created to help
schools and students meet the NCLB goals.
"We all support
the goals of No Child Left Behind, ensuring that all students meet high
standards of academic achievement.
"But we can't
just keep enacting new programs and initiatives that distract our schools from
their primary mission, teaching our boys and girls.
"In
Pennsylvania, we need to fund programs that work and stop spending the
taxpayers' money on programs that sound good, but that have little impact on
student achievement.
"We can't
afford to waste money or time. We have to fund programs that work so that our
schools can meet the NCLB goals and have the tools to do the job."
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