Tag: No Child Left Behind

In today’s climate, “No Child Left Behind” has greater implications than just test scores and poor individual outcomes. Dennis Lockett and Lillian Somarriba allege that San Francisco school teachers abused, bullied and neglected their special needs children and the San Francisco Unified School District, Child Protective Services and the SFPD made no significant efforts to safeguard their children from future harm or to protect the public by holding the perpetrators accountable.

"The alarming thing about phasing out is that the district is closing schools that have just opened," said Jayeesha Dutta, a co-director at Oakland-based Youth in Focus. "If this is a reform tool, we're never going to make progress."