Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar
grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported
education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to
distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.
To receive this accreditation, a visit team made up of an ABHES employee, a program specialist, a
distance education specialist and an individual who works in administration at a college, evaluated Broadview's program, found it to comply with ABHES standards, and
granted it's certification as a school educating students in the medical assistant field.