San Francisco Education Fund

Community

Speak Out on No Child Left Behind

How is this federal education law helping or not helping students, families, and communities in the Bay Area?
What should be done to ensure that the No Child Left Behind Act achieves its goal of a high quality education for every student?
What can the community do to help?

The San Francisco Education Fund thanks the following organizations for sponsoring the January 2006 hearing.

Co-Hosts:

Berkeley Public Education Foundation
Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
Public Education Network
San Francisco Education Fund

Partners:

American Indian Child Resource Center
Berkeley Public Education Foundation
California PTA
California Tomorrow
Chinese for Affirmative Action/Center on Asian American Advocacy
Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth
Community Leadership Academy Emergency Response (CLAER)
East Bay Agency for Children
Greatschools.net
La Raza Centro Legal
NAACP – San Francisco
Parent Institute for Quality Education (PIQE)
Parents for Public Schools San Francisco
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce

For questions or more information, please contact the San Francisco Education Fund at 415.912.2929 or NCLB@sfedfund.org.

California Hearing on No Child Left Behind Act

The San Francisco Education Fund and the Public Education Network have provided a unique opportunity for community members to share their views on the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and make recommendations on how the law may be improved.

In January 2006, nearly 300 Bay Area parents, students, and community leaders crowded into the San Francisco Main Public Library’s Koret Auditorium and at times lined up to give testimony at this public hearing. Click here to download a copy of the hearing transcript.

Community members also had the opportunity to provide online testimony by taking a short survey on NCLB. Click here to view survey results.

This California hearing was one of nine public hearings held by the Public Education Network with state and regional partners across the country. To learn more about the Public Education Network's national hearings, click here.

The results of these hearings and online testimony have been published in a series of national and state reports. Click here to view the California report.

Reports

NCLB Final Report : No Child Left Behind Act 2004-2007: The Realities Left Behind

California Hearing Report: No Child Left Behind in California: The Public Speaks Out

National Hearing Report: Open to the Public: The Public Speaks Out on No Child Left Behind. A Summary of Nine Hearings

Hearing Transcript

Welcome and Introduction

Youth Panel and Audience Testimony

Parent Panel and Audience Testimony

Community Panel and Audience Testimony

Closing Remarks

Press Room

San Francisco Education Fund/Public Education Network Press Release (1/19/06)