Last year Alexander joined some other Republican senators in introducing their own bills, which eliminated the annual benchmarks but maintained public reporting requirements and required states to identify their lowest-performing schools.
To ensure compliance, Congress required states to set more stringent monitoring requirements if they deemed federal requirements inadequate.
It originally required states to expand Medicaid.
For another, it required states that were not party to a war to remain neutral.
It also required states to start administering nationally mandated tests.Education is only one example.
NCLB required states to ensure each classroom was staffed with a "highly qualified" teacher.
It would have required states to prepare detailed plans for reducing runoff from storm water and agriculture.
But the agency has never required states to do this or sought to impose a uniform standard.
Since then, courts have required states to meet tough tests if they are to favor their residents.
The law required states and localities to spend 50percentt of the money on low- and moderate-income families.
The big nudge forward was a set of 1993 laws that required states to ease the registration process.
