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Issue 1
March 29, 2005
Vol. 1
Issue 1
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NCLB v. UPASS
Utah Public Education After HB 1001
In Special Session last week, the Utah Legislature passed HB
1001, which codifies the legal supremacy of UPASS, Utah’s evaluation system of student achievement, over that of any federal requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. During the interim session, Utah legislators will be working out the “nuts and bolts” of what this means to the Utah State Office of
Education, the entity charge with facilitating the collection and dissemination of both UPASS and NCLB data. The federal Department of Education has, since the conclusion of the Utah Special Session, been silent on what repercussions may fall on Utah, although prior to the session, US Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings indicated in a letter to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, that HB 1001 put Utah Title 1 funding in jeopardy.
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Students in Title 1 Schools
Policymakers often talk about Title 1 students or programs
without much thought to the question of “who are the Title 1 students in our area?” This short paper will detail the demographic profiles of Utah’s Title 1 students within each school district.
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Surviving Conflict with the Boss
by Ken Embley
Wow, is Utah “biting the hand that feeds it” when the
Legislature told the feds to, as they say, “hang it in your ear” when it comes to the No Child Left Behind mandates. As
it stands today, the consequences of their action is open to debate but the actions of our Legislators started me thinking about surviving conflict with people, like your boss, people who have power over you.
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