NCLB being used as a tool for military recruitment?

Armed Forces Recruitment

Attention parents, the following provision of the No Child Left Behind Act relates to the ability of the United States military and institutions of higher education to request certain information from CPS regarding its high school students to be used for purposes of recruitment by these entities. Please read this provision carefully.

SEC. 9528. ARMED FORCES RECRUITER ACCESS TO STUDENTS AND STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION.

(a) POLICY - (1) ACCESS TO STUDENT RECRUITING INFORMATION - Notwithstanding section 444(a)(5)(B) of the General Education Provisions Act and except as provided in paragraph (2), each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings.

(2) CONSENT - A secondary school student or the parent of the student may request that the student's name, address, and telephone listing described in paragraph (1) not be released without prior written parental consent, and the local educational agency or private school shall notify parents of the option to make a request and shall comply with any request.

(3) SAME ACCESS TO STUDENTS - Each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide military recruiters the same access to secondary school students as is provided generally to post secondary educational institutions or to prospective employers of those students.

 

Apparently, parents are getting notices that unless they opt out, their children's names, addresses, and phone numbers will be provided to military recruiters.

http://nclb.cps.k12.il.us/armed_forces.shtml