The Congress has approved a new Education Reform Plan. The pending Federal Legislation (H.R.1/S.1) Education Bill has incorporated three criteria that States must satisfy to qualify for Federal grant monies: challenging standards, accountability, and student assessment.

Standards define what students are expected to know and be able to do. Accountability requires that each state demonstrate that it has developed and implemented a system for ensuring that all local educational agencies, elementary and secondary schools make adequate yearly progress. This progress is defined by the standards and measured with annual student assessments against various objectives to determine the performance of the schools in the overall performance of each State.

The accountability criteria include annual measurable objectives for consistent and significant improvement against goals that meet or exceed the State's proficient level of performance on the State assessments. Schools and States that make significant progress in closing the achievement gap will be honored with awards from a "No Child Left Behind" school bonus fund.

The new Education Bill will highlight each school's achievement or lack there of, which will consequently generate a huge demand for trustworthy information-information on which programs and methods ensure consistent growth in achievement levels. This will be compulsory for States and schools to receive continued Federal support.

Now, more than ever in their history, education boards and local policymakers
need POWER4Kids.

POWER4Kids will furnish the facts and EVIDENCE the States need to make informed decisions on early elementary school reading and remediation programs- outstanding programs that must be employed to guarantee all students are prepared to receive an education in history, science, geography, mathematics, social studies, humanities… .

We must never forget that reading is the mandated core of education.

Without building a solid foundation in the complex rudiments of reading, state and local school administrators will have an impossible task meeting and exceeding objectives for student performance.

POWER4Kids will empower America to maximize her children's education experience.