NCLB: General timeline
Here is a general timeline for the implementation of the No Child Left
Behind Act
For a more-detailed timeline from NEA, click
here.
School Year 2001-02
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act was signed into law as Public Law 107-110 on January 8, 2002. All paraprofessionals hired after this date for Title I funded programs must meet the new paraprofessional requirements.
School Year 2002-03
- States must establish initial proficiency threshold for schools meeting Adequate Yearly Progress.
- States must administer language proficiency tests to all limited-English proficient students.
- All teachers hired for the first day of the 2002-2003 school year who are working in a program supported by Title I, Part A shall be "highly qualified."
- States must use 2 percent of Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
- LEAs must spend between 5 and 10 percent of such funds to ensure that teachers become highly qualified by the end of 2005-2006 school year.
School Year 2003-04
- All new migrant education funds will be based on actual counts of migratory children.
- 2004 Targeted Assistance grants become available.
- States must continue to use 2 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
- LEAs must continue to spend between 5 and 10 percent of such funds to ensure that teachers become highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year.
School Year 2004-05
- First year of Targeted Assistance grants under Reading First program.
- States must use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
- LEAs must spend 5 percent of such funds to ensure that teachers become "highly qualified" by the end of the 2005-2006 school year.
- SEAs must determine LEAs that have failed for two consecutive years to make progress toward the goal of all teachers being highly qualified by the end of the 2005-2006 school year, must develop an improvement plan to help the LEA, and must provide technical assistance.
School Year 2005-06
- All paraprofessionals hired prior to January 8, 2002, working in Title I programs must meet the paraprofessional requirements by January 6, 2006.
- States must have assessments for reading/language arts and math in grades 3–8 and in one between 10th and 12th grades.
- States must develop science standards.
- States must continue to use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
- LEAs must continue to spend 5 percent of such funds to help teachers who are not highly qualified become so by the end of the 2005-2006 school year.
- Teachers of core academic subjects must be “highly qualified” by the end of this year.
School Year 2006-07
States must continue to use 4 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
School Year 2007-08
States must assess science in one grade between 3rd–5th,
6th–8th
and 10th–12th.
States must continue to use 4 percent of their
Title I, Part A funds for school improvement.
School Year 2013-14
States must meet 12-year goal to have all students proficient
in reading/language arts, math and science.
