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According to the guidelines as issued, nearly all schools will be failing by 2014. Currently, many top notch, extremely, unbelievably high scoring schools are "failing" because a couple of kids in some obscure category in a super-subgroup (there are literally dozens of these "minority" groups) did not take the test. Naturally this was because some of the parents opted them out of test, which is their option under the law. This automatically triggers lots of penalties that are punishing these top performing schools.

No child left behind is an example of well intentioned government meddling turning the public desire for action into just another expensive but completely unfunded federal mandate.

On a day to day basis in the classroom, the law forces teachers to focus nearly all resources low performing students. Many of these students simply do not have the capabilities to perform at the mandated levels. In the meantime, top performing students are denied attention and resources.

This originally bipartisan proposal has gone seriously awry. The Dem sponsors, such as ultra lib. Bay Area Rep. George Miller (D-CA) are already trying to back away from this insane program.
This was an attempt to try to bring federal performance standards to our education system by trying to apply accountability to unresponsive state education bureaucrats. Unfortunately, it has been a colossal failure. It's time to scrub the system, and look at some more enlightened proposals.