Georgia schools make progress on federal standards

 About 82 percent of Georgia’s public schools met federal testing goals this year, according to figures the state released Friday. Roughly 79 percent met the standard last year. The state Department of Education released its annual report Friday on whether Georgia schools met the testing goals required by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The law requires all public schools to test students each year in math, reading and language arts in grades 3 through 8. Read more about these results in this article from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.