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Additional Public Comment: Hearing witnesses are chosen to represent a variety of perspectives, and many will speak on behalf of hundreds or even thousands of people impacted by NCLB. In order to allow enough time for extended dialogue with commissioners, the Commission must limit the number of witnesses who appear at each hearing. However, we encourage all interested organizations to submit written testimony on any NCLB topic for inclusion in the public record on our website. Testimony should be submitted via email (titled “Testimony”) to nclb.commission@aspeninstitute.org. Individuals may submit comments via the “Your NCLB Comments” tab on to the left.

April 2010

Working Together for Student Success: Accountability, Data, and High Standards
The Aspen Institute's Commission on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) will hold a national public hearing  focused on improving accountability, data and high standards.  The event will be held Monday, April 5th 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM CST at Tulane University's Lavin Bernick Center - Kendall Cram Room (#213).  Participants Include

At this public hearing, Louisiana state superintendent and Commissioner Paul Pastorek and members of the Commission’s Accountability, Data, and Standards Committee, chaired by National Council of La Raza’s Delia Pompa, will examine the current state of accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act/ESEA, including the impact of the common standards movement and Race to the Top activity and their implications for the law’s reauthorization. 

Other participating Commissioners are: Andres Alonso, CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools; F. Philip Handy, CEO of Strategic Industries and former chair of the Florida Board of Education; Greg Richmond, President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers; Edward Sontag, former Deputy Director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; and Laysha Ward, President of Community Relations for Target Corporation and President of the Target Foundation. 

Parking is extremely limited on campus.  If you would like to drive, we encourage you to park in the lot at Tulane University Square, 200 Broadway, New Orleans, and take the Tulane Shuttle to the Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC), leaving from University Square every 20 minutes. For a shuttle schedule, please go here.  If you would like to use public transportation, you may take the St. Charles streetcar uptown to the St. Charles & Broadway stop; from there it is a 15-minute walk.  For a map of campus, please go here.

For more information please go here.  To attend, please RSVP with your name, title, and affiliation to nclb.commission@aspeninstitute.org.


October 2009

The Engine of Successful Education Reform: Effective Teachers and Principals
On October 28th, the Commission held a public hearing on how to improve teacher and principal effectiveness in Denver at the Colorado State Capitol’s Old Supreme Court Chambers. For background on teacher and principal effectiveness, including funding and requirements under NCLB, download this backgrounder For additional information on the hearing, visit the event page

September 2009

Losing Patience with Chronically Low-Performing Schools: How to Improve School Improvement

Watch the hearing on C-SPAN's Website
The first hearing in a new series explored the challenge of chronically low-performing schools and examined what can be done now to more effectively address the issue. The hearing was open to the public and held Wednesday, September 2nd at 10:00 AM at Howard University's Blackburn Center Ballroom in Washington, DC. To learn more about the Commission’s new phase of work, see Not a Moment to Lose and a Q&A. For background on school improvement, including funding and requirements under NCLB, go here.

September 2008

Aspen Institute's National Education Summit: An Urgent Call
The Summit, organized by The Commission on No Child Left Behind, came at a critical time in the 2008 election cycle, providing an opportune backdrop for highlighting key education reform issues and forcing national, state, and local candidates to address them in a meaningful way. The summit provided a platform to launch a renewal of our national commitment to strong accountability for results in improving the academic performance of all students.

January 2008

Commission Joins Groups for Panel on Capitol Hill
The Commission along with nine co-sponsors, held a discussion between Congressional and Administration leaders on NCLB reauthorization. Education and community leaders from across the nation who experience the high cost of waiting for needed improvements to the law formed a second panel.

September 2007

Commissioner Andrea Messina testified before the House Committee on Education and Labor. Click here to view her testimony from the "Miller-McKeon Discussion Draft of the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act" hearing.

April 2007

Co-Chairman Roy Barnes spoke at the Council of Cheif State School Officers Legislative Conference on April 23, 2007.

March 2007

Governor Roy E. Barnes, Co-Chair for the Commission on No Child Left Behind, testified at a bicameral hearing entitled, "Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization: Improving NCLB to Close the Achievement Gap," on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 9:30 AM in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. In his testimony, Governor Barnes outlined the Commission's recommendations for strengthening No Child Left Behind that were released on February 13th in the report Beyond NCLB: Fulfilling the Promise to Our Nation's Children.

This hearing, hosted by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee, included testimonies from other key education leaders: Elizabeth Burmaster, Council of Chief State School Officers; Mike Casserly, Council of Great City Schools; Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Ed McElroy, American Federation of Teachers; Arthur Rothkopf, Business Coalition for Student Achievement; and Reg Weaver, National Education Association.

Commissioner Chris Edley spoke at the National Lieutenant Governors Association Winter Meeting entitled, "Reauthorization: No Child Left Behind," on Wednesday March 14, 2007, from 11:00 AM - 12:25 PM. This meeting was moderated by Lt. Governor John Cherry and the panel included the following: U.S. Representative Dale Kildee, House Committee on Education and Subcommittee on Early Childhood and Elementary and Secondary Education; U.S. Department of Education Deputy Secretary Ray Simon; Dr. Christopher Edley, Jr., Commission on No Child Left Behind; and National Education Association President Reg Weaver. In his testimony, Commissioner Edley emphasized the Commission's key recommendations that were released on February 13, 2007.

February 2007

Recommendation Release
At an event on capitol Hill,the commission released Beyond NCLB, a paper with presented 75 recommendations to the President, Congress and the public on how to strengthen the NCLB act.

April - September 2006

Commmission Hearings
This section includes reports summarizing the proceedings of each hearing held by the Commission in 2006 (available in both English and Spanish), as well as supplemental research reports written by Commission staff.