[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 16, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H1096]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           INTRODUCTION OF NO SCHOOL LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2004

  (Mr. BALLANCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLANCE. Mr. Speaker, earlier today in rural Edgecombe County in 
the community of Battleboro, we announced that we would file a bill 
tonight called ROLE Model Initiative, Respecting Our Leaders in 
Education. The event was held at Phillips Middle School in Battleboro 
where we had more than four dozen education professionals, parents, 
teachers and students representing rural North Carolina. This bill is 
being introduced so that we can have our local systems get funding, 
because we have mandated that they follow the IDEA Act and the No Child 
Left Behind Act and we have not provided the funds for these acts. One 
speaker today described these two acts, Individuals With Disabilities 
Education and No Child Left Behind, as trains on the same track headed 
toward one another, bound to collide. We want to have a moratorium so 
the States can opt out of the penalty phase of No Child Left Behind 
until we fund IDEA.

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