All Poor Blacks Left Behind Act 2002

KMT is concerned whether or not schools are blocking tutors for the poor. I'm no Roy Ann Moore but I do know that under law, free help supposed to be available for kids. Furthermore; we don't have to be advocates to see what's going on. Low-income parents are supposed to get a free tutor for any child who goes to a school that gets federal poverty aid but has not made steady progress for three straight years. KMT would like to see teachers and politicians stop talking about education and provide some figures. Many times speeches, reports and pleas about education is made with no stats to let us know where we stand. Many local parents would be shocked to learn that they also get to pick the tutor they want-even a private on from a state list. Maybe giving the parents this much decision making is too much for some educators to stomach. This is wrong because only 11% of eligible children, or 226,000 out of nearly 2 million that qualify received tutoring in the 2004 school year. Because data collection is not always strong we must be concerned with the local effort to tutor the poor. Millions of eligible students aren't getting the services and this is wrong. The central pledge of the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is a joke and empty words in the form of pledges. The low numbers of tutored students are not because of lack of interest but because some schools make getting help nearly impossible for these poor families. We should look the these three things: 1. Publicity that is so filled with jargon that parents don't understand it. 2. Registration held in the middle of the work day when most poor parents are working. 3. Difficulties for tutors to get some space inside schools, or even for them to talk directly to teachers. Let's see how we can how we can uplift our the poor by using all educational tools available.