Spellings to announce trial program of new AYP standards

 The Bush administration is trying to address one of the most common complaints about the No Child Left Behind education law: It treats schools the same, regardless of whether they fail to meet annual benchmarks by a little or a lot.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings plans to announce today (March 18, 2008) that she wants states to submit proposals for assigning different consequences to schools based on the degree to which they miss annual progress goals. Read more of this Associated Press article online.