The Austin Chronicle has an excellent look at No Child Left Behind and its effect on Austin schools. Most specifically, Anderson High, as that is where a large number of transfer students from low-performing schools are heading. Here's a taste:
It all boils down to whether NCLB's remedies - the five-stage school improvement plan of which the least prepared schools in AISD are in Stage Two - can really fix our struggling schools, or whether they simply set schools up to fail. NCLB critics argue that the law poses school improvement as primarily an issue of management, emphasizing the replacement of teachers, curriculum, and principals, rather than as an issue of resources, such as hiring more teachers to devote more individual time to each student. Others argue that money isn't everything.
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