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The No Child Left Behind Standardized Test
In compliance with the President's recent educational initiatives, teachers using this volume
as a textbook are encouraged to "teach to the test." The practice questions below are the
questions that will appear on the test and determine whether your school will receive federal,
state, and local funding. In accordance to the Texas model, please ensure that your lowest
performing students have dropped out prior to the test date.
SECTION ONE-MATH SKILLS
a. In the No Child Left Behind Act, Congress authorized a $5.6 billon increase in Title One
spending for low-income children. However, President Bush budgeted only $1 billion for Title
One. If Title One calls for $2,800 per poverty-level student, how many children are left behind?
a. 0
b. 1
c. 7
d. 1,643,857
2. In the No Child Left Behind Act, Congress authorized an expansion of transportation and
other support services to an additional 130,000 homeless children. Instead of an increase,
the President's budget froze funding for the homeless education program. Because of inflation,
this meant 8,000 fewer homeless children could be served than in the previous year.
Assuming there is no increase in homelessness this year, how many homeless children are
left behind?
a. 0
b. 8
c. 13
d. 138,000
a. In the No Child Left Behind Act, Congress authorized increased funding to help school districts
meet the mandate that all teachers in core academic subjects be "highly qualified" by
the end of the 2005-2006 school year. By freezing funding for the Teacher Quality State Grant
Program, the Bush budget trains 92,000 fewer teachers than were promised by the act. Assuming
each teacher teaches four classes a day of twenty-five students each, and does
guidance counseling for eight additional students, how many children are left behind?
a. 0
b. 25
c. 33
d. 9,936,000