No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is the current incarnation of President Lyndon Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), whose purpose was to raise achievement and close achievement gaps. NEA strongly supports these goals and is working to give all children great public schools. But educators know that NCLB as currently written can't get us there. ( https://diigo.com/015c1m )

Many of the major education groups like school boards and school administrators opposed the act, because the high cost of implementation was not possible due to low federal aid provided for education. Schools eventually sued the federal government due to poor funding. https://diigo.com/015c23