This law requires public secondary schools to provide military recruiters with access to facilities and contact information for every student or face a cutoff of all federal aid, according to Mother Jones. CNN covered the violations of privacy and moral dilemmas surrounding the new provision on December 3, 2002.

The American Friends Service Committee provides a helpful form to opt-out of the military's database.

January 29, 2003 - Uncle Sam Wants Student Lists, and Schools Fret by Tamar Lewin for the New York Times. Critics worry that the law opens the way for violations of students' privacy rights. Thanks to TalkLeft for the heads up.

From Misleader.org, January 26, 2004:

At least four other states, Utah, Vermont, North Dakota, and Indiana, have commissioned studies to determine how much it costs to comply with the law. This is viewed as a step towards considering rejection of federal funding in order to avoid what they perceive to be harsh penalties for failing to meet the standards of the law.

It turns out that for Ohio, the cost of NCLB is 34 times the value of federal funding to the state. Remember kids, "underfunded mandate" is a dirty word.

March 23, 2004 - The federal No Child Left Behind law is threatening to wreck public education in Minnesota and elsewhere.

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