PBS Article

Based off of this article from PBS, I learned that the No Child Left Behind Act ("NCLB") was signed in January of 2002. A major reform on ninety percent of public schools was to take place. Those ninety percent are "Title One" funding, which means that they are schools that the students are living in poverty or have the potential of not doing well in school. It intends on saving these schools and students by implementing scientifically-proven methods of teaching, allowing parents to transfer their child to a school that has been labeled as unsafe or appalling in performance, the ability for government-entities to assign money to school programs, and making state liable for their students being proficient in their curriculum. States that don't do the latter will forfeit funding from the federal government. To moderate if these changes are being made, states will design a series of tests called "adequate yearly progress". These tests must improve every year to show progress.

After reading this article, I have some questions.
What is on the adequate yearly progress for California? Are students doing well on them? What kind of material is on the test? Just math, reading, and English?

Does this effect science, fine arts, and music programs?
If parents just switch their children to better schools, will the old schools crumble?