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Spellings favors wiggle room for schools

NCLB Icon U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings on Wednesday proposed “a more nuanced” way of evaluating schools under President Bush’s No Child Left Behind school reform law—one that would differentiate between schools that are close to meeting state math, reading and science standards and those that are “chronic, chronic underperformers.” Read more of this article from USA Today.

Posted by Steve Groft on 28 June 2007 in Headlines , Issues in the News , Policy

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