Report to the Governor and General Assembly on the Costs of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act to the Virginia Department of Education

September 21, 2005 Report to the Governor and General Assembly on the Costs of the Federal No Child Left Behind Act to the Virginia Department of Education  The Virginia Department of Education (DOE) undertook to study the state agency and local school division costs of the 2001 "No Child Left Behind Act" (NCLB) in response to actions taken by the 2004 and 2005 General Assembly. Concurrently, the DOE joined a consortium of state departments of education, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop a coordinated approach for analyzing the costs of NCLB for multiple states . . .