"Low-income parents are supposed to get a free tutor for any child who goes to a school that gets federal poverty aid but has not made steady progress for three straight years.
Parents get to pick the tutor they want -- even a private one -- from a state list.
But that central pledge of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law is often not being met."
The article places blame on the following factors for this lag in tutoring:
- Publicity materials that parents don't understand (if you get much more complex than "free tutoring," they can't grasp it)
- Registration sessions conducted during typical working hours, when parents can't attend (OK, that's a valid complaint)
- School administration and board members making it difficult for tutors to meet with parents or secure time and space inside schools to conduct tutoring
Do parents know this is an issue? Do they even care? Are those civil rights advocates and tutoring companies pushing House and Senate education committees to improve tutoring access for children who won't take advantage of it anyway because of parental disinterest?
Where are the parents in all this?
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