U.S Department of Education
Rod Paige
Secretary

Office of Public Affairs
John Gibbons
Director

October 2004

This guide is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part is granted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citation should be: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Secretary, Office of Public Affairs, A Guide to Education and No Child Left Behind, Washington, D.C., 2004.

To obtain copies of this guide:

write to: ED Pubs, Education Publications Center, U.S. Department of Education, P.O. Box 1398, Jessup, MD 20794-1398; or

fax your request to: (301) 470-1244; or

e-mail your request to: edpubs@inet.ed.gov; or

call in your request toll-free to: 1-877-433-7827 (1-877-4-ED-PUBS); if 877 service is not available, call 1-800-872-5327 (1-800-USA-LEARN); and if you need TTY or TDD service call 1-877-576-7734; or

order online at: www.edpubs.org; or

visit our Web site at: www.ed.gov/nclb/overview/intro/guide/.

On request, this publication is available in Braille, large print or computer diskette. For more information, please call the Department's Alternate Format Center at (202) 260-9895 or (202) 205-8113.