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Blog Posts
4 are finalists for Superintendent
...middle school average in all 13 subjects tested on the CRCT, and was recognized as a Distinguished School as authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act. Welch is currently enrolled in the Superintendent Professional Development Program; the latest of several...
Feb. 14 3:08 pm
Full Story at Barrow County News
Opinion Line (Feb. 14)
...comes to Wichita in May, she can see the wizard and buy a brain. The U.S. Department of Education should be shut down. The No Child Left Behind law puts all the burden on teachers and none on students and parents. The biggest problems in USD 259 are students...
Feb. 14 2:29 pm
Are You Hearing the Words that are Coming Out of My Mouth?
...health care versus Washington takeover power grab versus voter revolt And the list goes on and on. Who would argue against No Child Left Behind? Who could? (And that?s the point: imagine someone raising their hand and announcing, ?Wait just a minute! Hold...
Feb. 14 11:57 am
Full Story at The Center for Cost-Effective Consumerism
Winooski School Board pledges to boost high school performance
...from the school board Wednesday. In 2008, Winooski High School did not make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law and is in year one of corrective action required by that law. Earlier this month, Winooski school officials hired...
Feb. 14 11:47 am
Full Story at Burlington Free Press
Winooski School Board pledges to boost high school performance
...from the school board Wednesday. In 2008, Winooski High School did not make adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law and is in year one of corrective action required by that law. Earlier this month, Winooski school officials hired...
Feb. 14 11:47 am
Full Story at Burlington Free Press
Bipartisanship Is No Substitute for Results
...as if he had a mandate to enact his campaign agenda, Democrats helped him do it! There were Democratic votes for tax cuts, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Iraq invasion, and an unfunded Medicare expansion. Were those Democrats chumps? Maybe. They helped...
Feb. 14 10:16 am
Budget proposal may hurt schools
...and math programs, including hiring staff for those programs, and has been subject to the same requirements under the No Child Left Behind law as other districts, he said. That law requires schools to meet benchmarks or face loss of federal funds, but it has...
Feb. 14 10:05 am
Full Story at Watertown Daily Times
English programs may get flexibility
...districts only if a school is meeting or exceeding achievement requirements for English-language learners under the No Child Left Behind Act or is classified as a high-performing or excelling school. A school would have to maintain that status for two years...
Feb. 14 8:26 am
Only School Choice Will Keep Them Honest
...in any legislature in the country is proposing any serious new reforms based on testing. What went wrong? Some will blame NCLB, and there?s something to that. With a federal ?accountability? regime in place, political capital to support state and local accountability...
Feb. 14 8:21 am
EDITORIAL: Applauding success of honored Valley schools
...The state Department of Education recognized 27 Valley elementary schools Thursday that use federal No Child Left Behind funding for academic achievement. Sanger Unified School District had eight schools recognized. Clovis Unified had five -- of nine district...
Feb. 14 8:10 am