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Alaskan school districts wrestle with NCLB English requirements.(Indian Education)(No Child Left...

Publication: Native American Report
Date: Friday, February 20 2004

Some Alaskan school districts still are trying to figure out how to comply with certain requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The law requires that third-grade students be tested in English, but many Alaska Native children are taught in their heritage language during their first three years.

The federal statute also requires that students be tested annually from grades three through eight, and then be tested again in high school.

States are permitted to make accommodations for students with language barriers, but after three years in U.S. publ

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