In a very brief recent report by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, Compliance Requirements within Title I, Part A of the No Child Left Behind Act the report found the following: “We identified 588 SEA and LEA compliance requirements within Title I, Part A of the NCLB Act—566 requirements in Subpart 1 and 22 requirements in Subpart 2.… We concluded that the requirements not specifically identified for monitoring need to be reviewed and evaluated to determine whether all of the requirements are necessary to fulfill the goals of the NCLB Act ... In view of the number of requirements included in the NCLB Act and the corresponding resources necessary to comply with and monitor those requirements, the Department should ensure that all of the requirements are necessary.” Please note that the nearly 600 mandates are just for Title I, and don't include any of the requirements for highly qualified teachers and paraprofessionals, English language learners, military recruitment, safe schools, or other facets of the law.

Source: Public Education Network